Marc Lynch is professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University, where he directs the Elliott School’s Middle East Studies Program. He is the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science and co-director of the Program on African Social Research. He is the co-editor of The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research After the Arab Uprisings (Oxford University Press, 2022). Marc’s Abu Aardvark blog is now published on Substack.