Professor Peter Sluglett

At the time of writing (July 2016), Sluglett was Director of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore. He had taught history at the University of Durham between 1974 and 1994 and then at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City between 1994 and 2011, where he was Director of the Middle East Center. Sluglett was one of the foremost academics specialising in the post war history of this region.