Wehrey previously served as a U.S. military officer assigned to the defense attaché office in Tripoli prior to the revolution. He returned to Libya as a researcher after Gaddafi's fall, interviewing Khalifa Haftar and spending time on the frontline with the Libyan National Army. He is the author of the book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings, which was chosen by Foreign Policy as one of the top five books of 2013[2] and by Foreign Affairs as one of top three books on the Middle East.[3]
Wehrey has lectured at Princeton,[4] Dartmouth,[5] and Georgetown University.[6] His articles have appeared in The New Yorker,[7] The Washington Post,[8] The New York Times,[9] Foreign Affairs,[10] Foreign Policy[11] and he has appeared on CNN, PBS NewsHour,[12] and The Charlie Rose Show,[13] among others.
Wehrey has testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives on the need for a more effective U.S. policy in Libya.[14]
