Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was an American diplomat and author. He was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world.
The American University in Cairo is a private research university in New Cairo,Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs at undergraduate,graduate,and professional levels,along with a continuing education program.
Michael W. Doyle is an American international relations scholar who is a theorist of the liberal "democratic peace" and author of Liberalism and World Politics. He has also written on the comparative history of empires and the evaluation of UN peace-keeping. He is a University professor of International Affairs,Law and Political Science at Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs. He is the former director of Columbia Global Policy Initiative. He co-directs the Center on Global Governance at Columbia Law School.
Janice Gross Stein is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies,negotiation theory,foreign policy decision-making,and international conflict management.
James Thomson Shotwell was a Canadian-born American history professor. He played an instrumental role in the creation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1919,as well as for his influence in promoting inclusion of a declaration of human rights in the UN Charter.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Helen V. Milner is an American political scientist and the B. C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University,where she is also the Director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. She has written extensively on issues related to international political economy like international trade,the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy,globalization and regionalism,and the relationship between democracy and trade policy.
Ismail Serageldin,Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA),the new Library of Alexandria,inaugurated in 2002,is currently,Emeritus Librarian,and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria. He serves as Chair or Member of a number of advisory committees for academic,research,scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts,and serves on the Advisory Committee of the World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016,as well as the UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios (2013) and the executive council of the Encyclopedia of Life (2010) and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (2010). He also co-chaired the African Union's high level panel for Biotechnology (2006) and again for Science,Technology and Innovation (STI) in 2012–2013,and was a member of the ICANN Panel for the review of the internet future (2013).
Saba Mahmood (1961–2018) was professor of anthropology at the University of California,Berkeley. At Berkeley,she was also affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,Institute for South Asia Studies,and the Program in Critical Theory. Her scholarly work straddled debates in anthropology and political theory,with a focus on Muslim majority societies of the Middle East and South Asia. Mahmood made major theoretical contributions to rethinking the relationship between ethics and politics,religion and secularism,freedom and submission,and reason and embodiment. Influenced by the work of Talal Asad,she wrote on issues of gender,religious politics,secularism,and Muslim and non-Muslim relations in the Middle East.
Jack A. Goldstone is an American sociologist,political scientist,and historian,specializing in studies of social movements,revolutions,political demography,and the 'Rise of the West' in world history. He is an author or editor of 13 books and over 150 research articles. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the study of revolutions and long-term social change. His work has made foundational contributions to the fields of cliodynamics,economic history and political demography. He was the first scholar to describe in detail and document the long-term cyclical relationship between global population cycles and cycles of political rebellion and revolution. He was also a core member of the "California school" in world history,which replaced the standard view of a dynamic West and stagnant East with a ‘late divergence’model in which Eastern and Western civilizations underwent similar political and economic cycles until the 18th century,when Europe achieved the technical breakthroughs of industrialization. He is also one of the founding fathers of the emerging field of political demography,studying the impact of local,regional,and global population trends on international security and national politics.
Rola Abdulla Dashti is a Kuwaiti economist and business executive and former politician and minister. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time and was one of the first female MPs elected to the Kuwaiti parliament. She subsequently served as minister of state planning and development affairs and State Assembly affairs.
Aida Adib Bamia is professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is a specialist in North African literature. Her work on Arabic literature has helped to bring quality translations to English readers.
William B. Quandt is an American scholar,author,and professor emeritus in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He previously served as senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and as a member on the National Security Council in the Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter administrations. He was actively involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. His areas of expertise include Algeria,Egypt,Israel,Palestine,the Israeli–Palestinian peace process,and U.S. foreign policy.
Alondra Nelson is an American academic,policy advisor,non-profit administrator,and writer. She is the Harold F. Linder chair and professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study,an independent research center in Princeton,New Jersey. From 2021 to 2023,Nelson was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and principal deputy director for science and society of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),where she performed the duties of the director from February to October 2022. She was the first African American and first woman of color to lead OSTP. Prior to her role in the Biden Administration,she served for four years as president and CEO of the Social Science Research Council,an independent,nonpartisan international nonprofit organization. Nelson was previously professor of sociology at Columbia University,where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science,as well as director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She began her academic career on the faculty of Yale University.
Middle Eastern Americans are Americans of Middle Eastern background. This includes people whose background is from the various Middle Eastern and West Asian ethnic groups,such as the Kurds and Assyrians,as well as immigrants from modern-day countries of the Arab world,Iran,Turkey,and Armenia.
Kenneth Prewitt an American academic who is the Carnegie Professor of Social Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs,where he is also director of the Scholarly Knowledge Project. He was Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001.
Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015,and sworn into her post on October 15,2015. Mendelson was recently named Distinguished Service Professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's program in Washington,D.C.
Jehane Noureldin Ragai is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is the author of the two editions of The Scientist and the Forger. The first edition,published in 2015 by Imperial College Press,was translated into Korean. The second edition,published in 2018 by World Scientific Publishing,was translated into Chinese. Her recent Textbook Technical Art History,published in 2021 by World Scientific Publishing,which she co-authored with Tamer Shoeib has won the "Most Promising New Textbook Award " by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association in the US.
Elmira Bayrasli is the author of the book From The Other Side of The World:Extraordinary Entrepreneurs,Unlikely Places,which looks at the rise of entrepreneurship on a global level,and the co-founder,of Foreign Policy Interrupted. From The Other Side of The World:Extraordinary Entrepreneurs,Unlikely Places,profiles seven entrepreneurs from seven countries overcoming seven obstacles. Those entrepreneurs and countries include:Turkey:Bulent Celebi,Airties;Nigeria:Tayo Oviosu,Paga;Pakistan:Monis Rahman,Rozee.pk;Mexico:Enrique Junco Gomez,Optima Energia;India:Shaffi Mather,1298;Russia,Yana Yakovleva;China:Lei Jun,Xiaomi.
