Wu Bingbing is Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Deputy Director and Associate Professor at the Department of Arabic Language and Culture in Peking University. He was a visiting scholar in Kuwait University in 1997 and Damascus University in 2001, and received his PhD 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). Now he is a fellow of China Association of Middle East Studies and deputy general secretary of China Arabic Language Education Association.