Reuel marc gerecht biography

Reuel Marc Gerecht (born ) is an American writer and political analyst focused on the Middle East. He is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focusing primarily on the Middle East, Islamic militancy, counterterrorism, and intelligence.

He is a former director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative and a former resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Earlier in his career Gerecht was a case officer at the CIA, primarily working on Middle Eastern targets.

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Life and career

In the s, while Gerecht was living abroad, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of Edward Shirley.

He writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and many other publications.

A contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, Mr Gerecht has been a foreign-affairs columnist for The New Republic magazine's foreign-affairs blog and a foreign correspondent for The At