Cantori, Louis

Lou was the author, co-author or editor of four books and over 40 articles on the Middle East and other subjects. Lou was a Sergeant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951-55, an affiliation in which he took great pride. He was a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer on the Middle East at the U.S. State Department and Adjunct Professor at Marine Corp University in Quantico, Virginia. Lou also taught at West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Marine Corps University. He founded or was heavily involved with various Middle East policy groups, including The American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies and The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. Lou received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in Political Science from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He studied Islamic philosophy at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.