Professor Bernard Lewis, one of the most sought-after and controversial experts on the Middle East, began his academic career as a student of the University of London. In 1949, he was appointed to the newly created Chair of the History of the Near and Middle East at the University of London. In 1974, he was appointed Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and became emeritus on his retirement in 1986. Among his works are his important 2002 study What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response and in 2003, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.