Douglas Little is the Robert and Virginia Scotland Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from Cornell University in 1978. The third edition of his most recent book, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (University of North Carolina Press), appeared in 2008 and was translated into Arabic in 2010. His current research focuses on the United States and the rise of radical Islam during the 1960s and 1970s.