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, and Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. Between 2001 and 2004 he was
a guest professor at the MCM institute of 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 has 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 a novel in Arabic, Escape in the Sun’s Eye.
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 Author’s Guild, the
Author’s League of America, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Arab
Thought Forum, and the Advisory board of the UNESCO – sponsored “Book in a
Newspaper,” project, The World Council for New Thinking, and a few other
professional and academic associations. Between1971-76 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.
MOHAMED RABIE, PhD contact
info:
professorrabie@yahoo.com and rabiem@hotmail.com
Website: www.yazour.com