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大卫·W. Lesch is the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of 历史 in the Department of 历史 at 圣赌博平台网站大全 in 圣安东尼奥, 德州. 他得到了M。.A. and PhD in Middle East 历史 from Harvard University.

He is the author or editor of 17 books and overall has over 140 publications. 他的著作包括:  A 历史 of 中东 Since the Rise of Islam (牛津大学出版社，2023)， 《叙利亚:现代史 (Polity Books, 2019); 阿以冲突:一段历史 (牛津大学出版社，2009,2019); 叙利亚:阿萨德家族的垮台 (耶鲁大学出版社，2012,2013); The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (耶鲁大学出版社，2005); 1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East (北京大学出版社, 2001); his popular edited volume, first published in 1996 and now in its 6th edition, The Middle East and the United States: 历史, Politics and Ideologies (北京大学出版社, 2018); his co-edited two-volume work (with Mark Haas), The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in 中东 (西景出版社，2012) The Arab Spring: The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings (北京大学出版社, 2017); and Syria and the United States: Eisenhower’s Cold War in 中东 (西景出版社，1992). 

博士的传记. Lesch的生活, 个人和专业, is currently being written by renowned biographical writer, 凯瑟琳·尼克松·库克, 预计出版日期为2024年. He has also published numerous articles in leading journals, 书中的章节, and essays in such noted publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, 美国有线电视新闻网.com, 《时代》杂志.

Dr. Lesch has been a consultant to the White House at the highest levels in the last four presidential administrations, 乔治·W总统. 布什致乔·拜登总统. Dr. Lesch has consistently met with and advised high level officials in the United States, 欧洲, 中东, and the United Nations on diplomatic issues. He has frequently testified in front of Senate and House committees. Dr. Lesch has been quoted in over 500 newspapers and magazines worldwide. He has appeared frequently on national and international television and radio programs such as 美国有线电视新闻网, 美国广播公司, PBS新闻时间, 微软全国有线广播电视公司, CNBC, 福克斯新闻, 半岛电视台, 美国国家公共电台, 和BBC, and he has appeared in over a dozen documentaries, 包括历史频道的节目, 英国广播公司(BBC), PBS《赌博娱乐平台网址大全》, and film productions by studios/news organizations in France, 德国, 丹麦, 沙特阿拉伯, 阿拉伯联合酋长国, 以色列, 和土耳其.

He is on the board of and/or an adviser to a number of organizations involved in Middle East affairs, 包括叙利亚研究中心(St. Andrews University, Scotland), the Damascus Foundation, and Cure Violence (Washington, DC). As a Senior Adviser to the Abraham Path Initiative (API), Dr. Lesch has spearheaded attempts to establish the API in Syria and Lebanon.  The API is an ambitious multinational project sponsored by Harvard University to construct a touristic walking trail throughout 中东 in order to enhance cross-cultural dialogue and understanding and economic development.  

Dr. Lesch also initiated and developed the Harvard University-NUPI-圣赌博平台网站大全 Syria 研究 Project, funded by the governments of Norway and Switzerland.  He led a team of researchers in 2012-13 to meet with most of the leading players involved in the Syrian civil war that began in 2011. The data provided necessary insights into the dynamics of the conflict in order to formulate possible pathways toward conflict resolution. He completed in the Fall 2013 an 850-page Final Report for the project and presented his findings at the highest levels in 欧洲, 美国和联合国. He completed Phase 2 of the project in 2016, 赌博娱乐平台网址大全 partnering in this phase with Conflict Dynamics International (CDI). It was funded by the government of 丹麦.  Currently he is involved in the next phase of his diplomatic engagement in Syria, working with CDI and The Carter Center (TCC) in the TCC-TU-CDI Syria Initiative. He met regularly with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad between 2004 and 2009, in part as an attempt to improve US-Syrians relations.

Dr. Lesch is involved in a number of 圣安东尼奥 city programs including the Violence Prevention Division and Stand Up SA, 圣安东尼奥世界事务委员会, and a number of initiatives working closely with the Mayor of 圣安东尼奥, 罗恩Nirenberg.

He was also the #1 draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1980 winter baseball draft and played in the minor leagues before a rotator cuff injury ended his career. He is married to Judy Dunlap, and he has one 33-year old son, Michael.