Brian Glyn Williams is a professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who worked for the CIA.[1][2][3] As an undergraduate, he attended Stetson University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1988. He received his PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Central Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. An expert on history of the Middle East, he has written a number of books on Afghanistan, the War on Terror and General Rashid Dostum.[4] His articles have been published by the Jamestown Foundation.[5] As an expert in the country, he teaches courses on Afghanistan at Umass Dartmouth.[2]