Mary-Jane Deeb is an American Middle East expert, librarian and novelist. Deeb worked at the Library of Congress, where she succeeded George Atiyeh as Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division. [1]
Mary-Jane Deeb is an American Middle East expert, librarian and novelist. Deeb worked at the Library of Congress, where she succeeded George Atiyeh as Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division. [1]
Deeb's mother was Slovenian and her father was a Levantine from Egypt. She grew up in Alexandria, where she spoke French at home and English at a school run by Irish nuns. [2]
Deeb gained her MA from the American University in Cairo in 1972, with a thesis on the Khazin family. [3] She gained her doctorate at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She then taught for a decade at the American University in Washington, and was Director of the Omani Program there. During the Lebanese Civil War she spent four years in Beirut, working for international organizations including the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST), and the US Agency for International Development. [4]
From 1995 to 1998, Deeb was editor-in-chief of The Middle East Journal . [5] She was also director of the Algeria Working Group at The Corporate Council on Africa. She was a UN observer for the 1997 Algerian parliamentary election. [4]
In 1998, Deeb joined the Library of Congress as Arab World Area Specialist. She became Head of the Near East Section, and in 2005 became Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED). She retired from the Library of Congress in February 2019. [4]
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The Arab Islamic Republic was a proposed unification of Tunisia and Libya in 1974, agreed upon by Libyan head of state Muammar Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba. Additional countries—Morocco and Algeria—were later included in the proposal, which was never implemented.
Middle Eastern studies is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. It is considered a form of area studies, taking an overtly interdisciplinary approach to the study of a region. In this sense Middle Eastern studies is a far broader and less traditional field than classical Islamic studies.
The Middle East Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Middle East Institute. It was established in 1947 and covers research on the modern Middle East, including political, economic, and social developments and historical events in North Africa, the Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Jacob Passel is the current editor.
Christopher Wise is a cultural theorist, literary critic, scholar, and translator. His publications largely focus on Sahelian West Africa, especially Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal, as well as Palestine, Jordan, and Israel. He has also published theoretical works on Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida, and Noam Chomsky.
Frederica Mathewes-Green is an American author and speaker, chiefly on topics related to Eastern Orthodox belief and practice.
Lisa Anderson is an American political scientist and the former President of the American University in Cairo (AUC).
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Edward Roger John Owen was a British historian who wrote several classic works on the history of the modern Middle East. His research interests included the economic, social and political history of the Middle East, especially Egypt, from 1800 to the present, as well as the theories of imperialism, including military occupations.
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cairo, Egypt.
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