Fred Halliday was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1946. He was an expert in the field of International Relations and the Middle East. He was from 1985 to 2008 Professor of International relations at the London School of Economics In 2002, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. He landed in Barcelona in 2004, as visiting research fellow at CIDOB. In 2005 he became the first visiting professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). From 2008 to 2010 he was an ICREA Research Professor at IBEI. In 1981, he published one of the first studies on the Iranian revolution, Iran: Dictatorship and Development. Among his publications are Islam and the Myth of Confrontation (1996), 100 Myths about the Middle East (2005), The Middle East in international relations: Power, Politics and Ideology (2005), The Fate of Solidarity: Uses and Abuses (2008) and Britain's First Muslims: Portrait of an Arab Community (2010). He wrote regularly for the newspaper La Vanguardia as a political analyst. He died in Barcelona, the 26th of April 2010.