Hillel Fradkin is Director of the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He writes on classical and contemporary Islam; Middle Eastern politics; American foreign and security policy; and international relations. He has lectured widely in the US and abroad, including in France, Great Britain, Germany, Morocco, Turkey, and Israel, before academic, public, and governmental audiences. In addition to work on Islamic history and thought, he has also written on the history of the problematic relationship of religion and politics as well as the history of Jewish thought.