Divide and Perish is the product of sixty years of specialization in Arabic and the Middle East - thirty years with the US Department of State, thirty years of lecturing on Palestine, terrorism, and American Middle East policy for the Department and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (a joint enterprise of Duke, NC State and UNC/Chapel Hill), and writing for AmericanDiplomacy.Org., which is affiliated with the University of North Carolina.

Divide and Perish is the product of sixty years of specialization in Arabic and the Middle East - thirty years with the US Department of State, thirty years of lecturing on Palestine, terrorism, and American Middle East policy for the Department and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (a joint enterprise of Duke, NC State and UNC/Chapel Hill), and writing for AmericanDiplomacy.Org., which is affiliated with the University of North Carolina.