Charles King is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University where he teaches a popular course called ‘Ethnicity, Race, and Nation'. His many books include Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul, a 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, winner of a National Jewish Book Award in 2011. He reviews books in the New York Times and the TLS, and writes for Foreign Affairs and The New Republic, and op-eds for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.