Macalester International Volume 14 Complex Contradictions: African, Article 6 American, and Middle Eastern Perspectives

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Philip Chase Bobbitt holds the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas where he has been a member of the faculty since 1976. He has served in the U.S. government under both parties and in all three branches. He has been Senior Director in a number of posts at the National Security Council. In January 2001, he received a Presidential appointment to the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, and was recently appointed to a national blue ribbon commis- sion that will ensure the continuity of governmental institutions after a terrorist attack. He holds an A.B. in Philosophy from Princeton University; a J.D. from the Yale Law School; and a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford University, where from 1984–1990 he was a Fellow of Nuffield College and a member of the Oxford Modern History faculty. He is the author of Tragic Choices (with Guido Calabresi); Constitu- tional Fate; Constitutional Interpretation; Democracy and Deterrence; U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton); and The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies where he was a Visiting Fellow.

Philip O. Geier has been President of the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico, since 1993. Recently, he led the successful campaign to save one of America’s historic landmarks, the Mon- tezuma Castle, and to establish in it a new institute for the “construc- tive engagement of conflict,” building on the United World College’s longstanding commitment to conflict resolution training for its students. Geier’s education includes a B.A. from Williams College as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has taught history and Amer- ican Studies at Syracuse, Dickinson College, and the University of Paris. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright awards and currently serves on the Fulbright Prize for International Understanding Committee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy, and serves as a Trustee of Pine Manor College and the United World College in the United States.

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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies in the Department of History, and Director of the Middle East Institute, at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, George- town University, and at the University of Chicago for sixteen years. He is past President of the Middle East Studies Association, and was an advisor for the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from 1991 to 1993. He is President of the American Task Force on Palestine and editor of the Journal of Pales- tine Studies. Khalidi is the author of Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Mod- ern National Consciousness, co-winner of the Middle East Studies Asso- ciation’s Albert Hourani Prize as best book of 1997; British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906 – 1914 (1980), and Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making during the 1982 War (1986). He was co-editor of Pales- tine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991). He has also written over seventy-five articles on many aspects of Middle Eastern history.

David Chioni Moore is Associate Professor of International Studies and English at Macalester College. Having studied at Brown, Paris, and Dakar, and holding a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke, his primary interests are in literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America. Significant interests also include the post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet. He has published widely in places such as Callaloo, Diaspora, Research in African Literatures, PMLA, Genre, The Journal of Anthropologi- cal Research, The Slavic and East European Journal, Resources for American Literary Study, and Transition. Martin Bernal’s Black Athena Writes Back, edited by David Moore, appeared in 2001 from Duke University Press. Forthcoming is A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, by Langston Hughes, originally published in Moscow in 1934 and now re-edited and expanded by David Moore for contemporary readers.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a prominent novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya as well as a scholar of African literature. The winner of many awards for artistic and academic achievement, he is currently Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the

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University of California, Irvine, where he holds the position of Distin- guished Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Ngugi’s works include Weep Not Child (1964, a UNESCO First Prize winner); (1965); (1967); (1977); Caitaani Mutharabaini (1980), with the English translation Devil on the Cross (1982); Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary (1982); Home- coming (1969); (1986); Moving the Centre: The Struggle For Cultural Freedoms (1993); Writers in Politics (1997); Pen- points, Gunpoints and Dreams (1998); The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (with Micere Mugo, 1976); (with Ngugi wa Mirii, 1980), with the English translation I Will Marry When I Want (1982); and Mati- gari (1989). Ngugi has also written a number of children’s books and edits the Gikuyu language journal, Mutiiri. Ngugi has recently been elected an Honorary Member of the Amer- ican Academy of Arts and Letters.

Michael Okrob is from Dusseldorf, Germany, and will graduate from Macalester in December 2004. He is majoring in Political Science and Economics. His academic interests include agency in international relations, international regime theory, and global political economy. His honors thesis explores the norm-transforming potential of corpo- rate citizenship in international economic regimes. As president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society, he is currently involved in the preparation of a conference on corporate social respon- sibility to be held at Macalester in the fall of 2004. Michael intends to pursue a Master of International Affairs degree after graduating from Macalester.

Emily Parker is a senior at Macalester, graduating with an Interna- tional Studies and Spanish double major and a Computer Science minor. Hailing from Tacoma, Washington, she has studied abroad in Spain and has spent several years in East Africa, both as a child and as an adult. Her extracurricular activities include soccer, rock climbing, and volunteering in the classroom. She hopes to share her interest in language and language policy by pursuing a career in education.

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