Dr. David Romano obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at McGill with the Interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Romano is an expert on Near-East nationalism and has spent more than a year and a half conducting fieldwork in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. His research and publications include the Kurdish issue, rebellions against state authority, Arab social movements, and politicized ethnicity.