Frederic Wehrey is an American scholar of Middle East affairs, expert on Libyan and Gulf politics, and Senior Fellow at the

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Program at the

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. Wehrey earned a PhD in

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from

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. Wehrey previously served as a U.S. military officer assigned to the defense attaché office in

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prior to the revolution. He returned to Libya as a researcher after Gaddafi's fall, interviewing

Khalifa Haftar Khalifa Haftar (; born 7 November 1943) is a Libyan-American politician, military officer, and the commander of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army (LNA). In 2015, he was appointed commander of the armed forces loyal to the 2014 Libyan parliam ...

and spending time on the frontline with the

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. He is the author of the book, ''Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings'', which was chosen by ''

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'' as one of the top five books of 2013 and by ''

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'' as one of top three books on the Middle East. Wehrey has lectured at Princeton, Dartmouth, and Georgetown University. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and he has appeared on CNN, PBS NewsHour, and The Charlie Rose Show, among others. Wehrey has testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives on the need for a more effective U.S. policy in Libya.http://www.c-span.org/video/?316396-1/senators-hear-developments-north-africa https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/opinion/taking-sides-in-libya.html

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