**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Sotiris Roussos** Associate Professor of International Relations and Religion in the Middle East and the Mediterranean at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese and Scientific Supervisor of the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East, and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS). From 2015 to 2018, he was Coordinator of the Centre for Religious Pluralism in Middle East (CRPME). He served as Senior Middle East Expert at the Greek Foreign Ministry, and was member of the Task Force for the Palestinian Refugees and Water Issues of the EU Special Representative for the Middle East and of the International Informal Group on the Status of Jerusalem. Sotiris Roussos was, in 2009, appointed Personal Envoy for the Mediterranean Partners of the President-in-Office of the OSCE. He was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2012. He has written extensively on the Middle-East Christians as well as on religion and regional politics in the Middle East.
