Complex sentence: Daniel C. Peterson is prominent Mormon apologist, and professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University (BYU) and currently serves as editor-in-chief of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.
Split into simpler sentences: Daniel C. Peterson is prominent Mormon apologist, and professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University (BYU). He also currently serves as editor-in-chief of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.