Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum and the President and Co-founder of the Common Action Forum. He was the Director General of the Al Jazeera Network from 2003 to 2011. He started his career as a journalist in 1997, serving as a foreign correspondent in many countries including South Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a public intellectual, he has addressed leading universities, political and media think tanks. This is his first book.