Professor Mohamed Rabie, PhD

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Dr. Rabie is a professor of International political economy; he studied in Egypt, Germany and the United States and holds a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Houston. He taught at several Arab and American universities, including Kuwait University, Georgetown University, The Johns Hopkins University, Texas Southern University, and Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. Between 2001 and 2004 he was a guest professor at St. Gallen University in Switzerland and between 1999 and 2000 Dr. Rabie served as an academic advisor to Erfurt University in Germany and was its US representative.

Prof. Rabie has published extensively in English and Arabic. His English books include: The Politics of Foreign Aid; A Vision for the Transformation of the Middle East; The New World Order; Conflict Resolution and the Middle East Peace Process; Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, and The Making of History. Arabic Books include: The Brain Drain; Economy and Society; the Other Side of the Arab Defeat; the Making of American Foreign Policy; American Aid to Israel; The Making of the Arab Future; Leadership and the Making of History; and Culture and the Arab Identity Crisis. And in both English and Arabic: The US-PLO Dialogue. In addition, Dr. Rabie published in Arabic a short story, a Journey with Worries; two novels, Escape in the Suns Eye, Jahlawad Kingdom; and three books of poetry, The Train of Time; Autumn of Memories; and A View of the Ocean; and more than 50 scholarly papers and over 1000 newspaper articles. He has another book under publication: The Stages of Societal Development (in English).

Dr. Rabie had previously served as a board member of the Arab Fund for Technical Assistance for African Countries; The Palestine National Fund; and the steering committee of the Euro-Arab Dialogue. Currently, Dr. Rabie is a member of the Authors League of America, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Arab Thought Forum, The World Council for New Ideas, and the Advisory board of the UNESCO – sponsored "Book in a Newspaper," project, and other  associations. Between 1971 and 1976 Dr. Rabie was the founding editor of the Social Sciences Quarterly published by Kuwait University.

Dr. Rabie has participated in tens of conferences, seminars, and dialogue group meetings in more than fifty countries. Between 1989 and 1992, he had been a member of both the Harvard University team and the Brookings Institutions working group to advance peace and economic development in the Middle East. He was also a board member of the Search for Common Ground Middle East Initiative, which is based on the ideas he articulated in his booklet, A Vision for the Transformation of the Middle East. Dr. Rabie is the recipient of several grants and awards as student and professor from American, Egyptian, German, Jordanian, Kuwaiti and UN agencies and foundations.

In 1988 Dr. Rabie conceived the idea of the US-PLO dialogue, drafted the original document that guided negotiations, and coordinated secret contacts between the US and the PLO that led the US government to recognize the PLO and open a dialogue with it around the end of the year.

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