Riad Kassis is Executive Director of the Johann Ludwig Schneller School in West Bekaa, Lebanon and Overseas Council Internationals Regional Director for Middle East and Eurasia. He is also a scholar with Langham Partnership International (known as John Stott Ministries in the U.S.). Riad has served in many leadership positions in local churches, in academic institutions, and in non-profit organizations. He continues to teach in many seminaries and is a sought-after conference speaker in the entire region. Riad has several publications to his credit including The Book of Proverbs and Arabic Proverbial Works (Brill Academic Publishers, 1999) and the Arabic book Making Sense of the Old Testament to the Arab Reader (Dar al-Thaqafa, 2007).