Gilles Kepel is one of Europe’s leading experts on Islamism, the Middle East, and North Africa, and has been serving as the Special Envoy of President Emmanuel Macron for the Mediterranean. He is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po). His numerous books – which include Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, and Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East — have been translated into seventeen languages.