Mohamed Rabie

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“The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Is there a peace process ?”

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Dr. Mohamed 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. . 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. And in both English and Arabic: The US-PLO Dialogue. In addition, Dr. Rabie published a short story, a Journey with Worries, and two books of poetry, The Train of Time and Autumn of Memories, and more than 50 scholarly papers and over 500 newspaper articles. He has two other books under publication: The Stages of Societal Development (in English) and Culture and the Arab Identity Crisis (in Arabic) and two new novels in Arabic, Escape in the Suns Eye, and The Kingdom of Jahlawad.

Dr. Rabie had previously served as a board member of the Arab Fund for Technical Assistance for African and Arab Countries, and the steering committee of the Euro-Arab Dialogue. Currently, Dr. Rabie is a member of the Authors Guild, 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 a few other  associations. Between 1971-76 He 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 and the Brookings Institutions working groups 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 was 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 for 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 to recognize the PLO and open a dialogue with it around the end of the year.

Please visit Dr. Rabie’s excellent website, where you can download many of his publications for free

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