V. V. NAUMKIN

Scientific Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. Author of more than 600 scientific publications, including monographs: “History of the East”, “Islam and Muslims: Culture and Politics”, “The Middle East in World Politics and Culture”, “The Arab World, Islam and Russia: Past and Present”, “The Middle East Conflict”, “The Socotra Archipelago Islands (expeditions 1974–2010)”, “Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century: Middle East and North Africa” (co-authored), “The Middle East in Search of a Political Future” (co-authored), and others. Editor-in-Chief of the journals “East (Oriens)”, “Russia and the World: Scientific Dialogue”, “Digital Oriental Studies”, “Eastern Analytics”. Chairman of the editorial boards of the journals “Oriental Archives”, “Epigraphy of the East”. Member of Scientific Councils under the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, under the Security Council of the Russian Federation, of the Valdai International Discussion Club, and others. Awarded the Orders of Alexander Nevsky, Friendship, “Duslyk” (Tatarstan), Glory (Mordovia), Honor (Russian Council of Muftis), National Order of the Cedar (Lebanon), Golden Order for Merit (Palestine), and others. Recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Peter the Great Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation, S. F. Oldenburg Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, International Prize of the Valdai Club, V. V. Posuvalyuk Prize of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and TASS, and others.