The Charlie Rose Show. At the occasion of the 10 years anniversary of the Arab Spring protests, Gerges warned that the root causes for social unrest in the Arab World were still simmering, adding that "the status quo is untenable, and the next explosion will be catastrophic”. Personal Gerges is married to Professor Nora Colton, Dean of the Royal Docks Business School and currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of East London. The couple have four children. Gerges was born during a Lebanese civil war in 1958 and was part of the 1975 war generation. According to him, "My generation was wiped out—killed, mutilated and polluted by sectarian-tribal conflict between 1975 and 1990, or forced into exile." Although he immigrated to the United States to escape the conflict, Gerges' younger brother, Bassam, was killed during the war in 1990. Gerges has lived most of his life in the United States. Works Gerges, Fawaz A. (2018). Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East. Princeton University Press. . Gerges, Fawaz A. (2016). ISIS: A History. Princeton University Press. . Gerges, Fawaz A. (2015). Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings. Palgrave Macmillan. External links Articles at The Guardian 1958 births Writers from Beirut Lebanese emigrants to the United States American anti-war activists Living people Sarah Lawrence College faculty Harvard University faculty Columbia University faculty Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of Oxford Eastern Orthodox Christians from Lebanon Historians of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Princeton University fellows