* Tarek Chamkhi born in 1970 in Tunisia (North Africa). He is a journalist and academic with two university qualifications in Islamic studies and political sciences from Lebanese University and faculty of dawaa Islamiyah (Beirut- 1995). His works have appeared in such prestigious Arab and Lebanese newspapers as Al-Nnahar and Al-Hayat during the 1990s.

He has also published books on Islamic thought in Arabic. (1994- 2001)

He is interested in the geo-politics of the Muslim world and has plans to write a book on this matter. He published a theory of Islamic geopolitics called "The Triangle of the Islamic Renaissance", which was first in 1996 and he is to review this theory 10 years on.

Tarek still writes in both Arabic and English. You can read his Arabic works on: http://chamkhi.maktoobblog.com

Tarek is the current editor in Chief of Crescent Times.