Commander Aboul-Enein is a Navy Medical Service Corps Officer involved in Middle East affairs and counter-terrorism since 9-11.  He is author of “Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat,” (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2010) and “Iraq in Turmoil: Historical Perspectives of Dr. Ali al-Wardi from the Ottomans to King Feisal,” (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2012).  Commander Aboul-Enein is a Defense Department Counter-Terrorism Adviser, and teaches part-time at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington D.C.  He is working with his brother on a manuscript looking into Allied and Axis intelligence and propaganda operations in the World War Two Middle-East.