Dr. Michael B. Bishku is a professor of Middle Eastern History at Augusta State University in Georgia, U.S.A. He is an Advisory Editor of Oxford Bibliographies Online for Islamic Studies and is a former President of both the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (2005-2006) and the Association of Third World Studies (1995-1996). He has published numerous articles on the history and politics of the Middle East and South Caucasus and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2010), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008), Islamic Attitudes to Israel (2008), The Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism (2007), The Islamic World: Past and Present (2004) and the Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2003). He is currently working on a book entitled Crossroads of the Caucasus: A Modern History of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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