Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow in the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focused on politics and security issues in North Africa and the Gulf. He has visited Libya continuously since the 2011 revolution and reported on the country's conflicts for outlets like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The London Review of Books. He is the author of The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018), which The New York Times called "the essential text on the country's disintegration." His first book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings (Columbia University Press, 2013), was chosen as a "Best Book on Middle East" by Foreign Affairs magazine for 2014. Wehrey has also testified before the U.S. Congress on U.S. policy in Libya and served as a consultant to the United Nations on security sector reform and policing. A former U.S. military officer with tours across the Middle East, he holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.
