Raouf abbas biography of christopher

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Acronyms

AUCAmericanUniversity in Cairo

CAPMASCentral Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics

CESCRCommittee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

ICCPRInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICESCRInternational Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

IRCIslamic Research Council

LEEgyptian Pound

MESAMiddle East Studies Association

NDPNational Democratic Party

UDHRUniversal Declaration of Human Rights

UNDPUnited Nations Development Programme

Recent studies of the Arab world have turned a spotlight on the poor state of its university education. In , the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Arab Human Development Report focused on education in the region. The report concludes, "Knowledge in Arab countries today appears to be on the retreat. . . . Continuing with this historic slide is an untenable course if the Arab people are to have a dignified, purposeful and productive existence in the third millennium."[1] One important reason for this decline is the lack of academic freedom on university campuses.

Conditions at universities in Egypt, historically a leader in education in the Arab world, exemplify the problem. On a mission to Egypt, Human Rights Watch found that academic freedom violations pervade the country's system

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Publications

Animal Labor & Colonial Warfare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,   

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-building in Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

Yingguode Keye: Shijiu Shiji Zhongguo de Diguo Zhuyi Jiaocheng (English Lessons). Translated by Liu Tianlu. Beijing: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe,

English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China. Durham, NC: Duke University Press and Hong Kong University Press,  

Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Chinese translation: Huairou yuanren. Beijing: Social Sciences Publishing House,

• Winner of the Joseph R. Levenson Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies.

"Tribute, Asymmetry, and Imperial Formations: Rethinking Relations of Power
in East Asia." In Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy, edited by John E. Wills. Portland, MN: Merwin Asia,

"Small Wars and Counterinsurgency." In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly et al., – Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

"Tribute, Asymmetry, and Imperial Formations: Rethinking Relations of Power
in East