WU Bingbing is a Special Research Fellow of the IISS and an associate professor at the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at Peking University. He was a visiting scholar in Kuwait University in 1997 and Damascus University in 2001, and received his Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature at Peking University in 2003.

His research interests include Arab-Islamic Culture, Shi’ite Islam, history of Islam, and contemporary Islamic issues. He is the author of the book The Rise of the Shi’i Modern Islamism (CASS Press, Beijing, 2004). His other published works include articles on the concept of Jihad and contemporary Islamic terrorism, Ummah and Islamic society, secularism in the Arab World, etc. Now he is a fellow of China Association of Middle East Studies and deputy general secretary of China Arabic Language Education Association.