Meyrav Wurmser

Dr. Meyrav Wurmser, the former Executive Director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), is a leading scholar of the Arab world.

Dr. Wurmser is a frequent guest on radio and television, including BBC, Fox News, CNN, PBS and CNBC. Wurmser has written numerous books and monographs on Israel, the Arab world, and Zionism, including Building Free Societies in Iraq and Afghanistan (Hudson Institue, 2004) and The Schools of Ba'athism--a Study of Syrian Schoolbooks (MEMRI, 2000). Wurmser, who has taught political science at the Johns Hopkins University and the United States Naval Academy, has published articles in such publications as the Weekly Standard, the Middle East Quarterly, the Washington Times, the Middle East Journal and Middle East Insight.