Sotiris Roussos is Associate Professor on International Relations and Religion in the Middle East at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese and Head of the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS). He is also Coordinator of the Centre for Religious Pluralism in the Middle East. From 1997 to 2003, he served as Senior Middle East Expert at the Greek Foreign Ministry. In 2009 Sotiris Roussos was appointed Personal Envoy for the Mediterranean Partners of the President-in-Office of the OSCE. Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2012. He has written extensively on the regional security and international politics in the Middle East, political Islam and the Christian communities in the Eastern Mediterranean.