Long CV
DR. JERRY W. LEACH
2147 Colts Neck
Court
Reston, Virginia
20191
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS AS AN EDUCATOR
Areas
of concentration: Globalization,
Environment, Middle East, Pacific,
USA
Current
book project: The New Egypt: the society emerging from the Egyptian
Revolution.
Former
faculty member at Cambridge University, American University in Cairo, University
of Papua New Guinea, Gazi National Teachers Training College (now Gazi
University) in Turkey.
Director of award-winning
documentary film Trobriand Cricket: an
ingenious response to colonialism, now a standard teaching film in social
sciences worldwide.
Lived, taught, and conducted
research abroad for 19 years. In-depth experience
in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the
Pacific. Visited 110 countries.
Book on famous trading ring in Melanesia. Articles,
edited series, curriculum module, two anti-corruption laws, two US
national policy directives, and 14 international agreements..
Substantial public speaking,
television, writing, editing, and conference experience.
Former National President of World
Affairs Councils of America with 86 chapters nationwide, 13 international
affiliates, and 484,000 members and participants.
Former Peace Corps Regional Director
for Eastern Europe, Soviet Republics, Middle East, Asia,
and Pacific.
Foreign languages: Turkish and Kiriwinan (an Austronesian
language in New Guinea)
Ph.D. and M.A. Cambridge
University. M.A. Berkeley. B.A.
High Honors
Emory University
Professional Experience
Appendix 1 - Education, Honors, Affiliations, Languages (p. 7)
Appendix 2 - Contributions to Public
Anthropology (p. 8)
Appendix
3 - Personal Research Goals (p. 10)
Appendix
4 - Outline of Egyptian Revolution Book
(p.13)
Appendix
5 - Teaching of University Courses (p.
16)
Appendix
6 - Public Speaking and Media
Appearances (p. 17)
Appendix 7 - Conferences Led (p. 19)
Appendix 8 - Track Record for Trobriand
Cricket (p. 20)
Appendix 9 - Fellowships and Grants Acquired (p. 21)
Appendix 10 - Publications
(p. 22)
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
AUTHOR AND RESEARCHER. Fulltime work on book The New Egypt: the society emerging from the Egyptian
Revolution (provisional title). Sept.
2011 – continuing.
Started project
February 2011 and will continue research period at least through the writing of
the new constitution and the election of the new Egyptian President.
Five-person
Egyptian research team created in June 2011.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
IN CAIRO. Professor and Director of
the Prince Alwaleed Center
for American Studies and Research in the School of Global Affairs and Public
Policy. 2006 - 2011.
Taught the
following new courses in the core curriculum 2007-2011:
What is America?
What is Globalization?
Big Global Issues We All Face.
Gave
12-hour workshop for Egyptian journalists covering the 2008 US elections.
Led 30 AUC
students and faculty members on study tours to Washington,
D.C. and to Rice
University in Houston.
Ran
documentary and discussion series on “Big Issues that America and
Egypt Both Face”
“An Inconvenient Truth”
by Al Gore
“Solar Energy: Saved by
the Sun” by NOVA
“Six Degrees Could
Change Our World” by National Geographic
“World in the
Balance: the Population Paradox”
“Saddam’s Confessions”
on the FBI debriefing of Saddam in captivity.
“A Crude Awakening: the coming oil
crash” on the peak oil theory.
“Sicko” on US healthcare system by Michael
Moore.
“Supersize Me” on fast food and
obesity by Morgan Spurlock.
“Palestine Peace not Apartheid”
about Jimmy Carter’s US book tour.
“Bowling for Columbine” on gun
control by Michael Moore.
“Evangelicals in America” on religion in politics by
Andrea Pelosi.
“Capitol Crimes” on corruption in
government by Bill Moyers.
“Army of God” on abortion by PBS.
“Uncovered: the Whole Truth about
the Iraq
War” by PBS.
“On
the Road in America”
with Layalina TV.
Hosted the following public speakers
in Cairo:
Film-maker Michael Wadleigh on “The Future of Humanity”
Sir Eldon Griffiths on “Iran,
the US,
and the West”
Prof. James K. Galbraith on “The World Recession”
Prof. James K. Galbraith on “The Growing Divide between the
Rich and Poor”
Prof. James K. Galbraith on “The Predator State
and the Free Market”
Pres. James M. Zogby on “The Middle
East in the 2008 Elections.”
Dr. John Duke Anthony on “US-Arab Relations”
Gov. Michael Dukakis on “Reclaiming
Citizenship: Public Service for Public Good.”
Prof. Stefan Halper “US Foreign Policy after Bush”
Prof. William B. Quandt for “Bush’s Moment in the Middle East.”
Prof. Brantley Womack for “Democracies and Small Wars:
Lessons from Iraq.”
Journalist Steve Franklin on “What is Happening to American
Newspapers?”
Eng. Galal El-Deeb on “Who Benefits from
the Suez Canal?”
Put on the
following cross-cultural symposia at various Egyptian universities:
“Authoritarianism versus Democracy” Cairo, Helwan, Ain Shams, BUE, Menoufiya
“Biases in the Egyptian and American Media” at Menoufiya University
“American Foreign Policy in the Middle
East” at AUC
“What Are the Roots of Islamophobia?” at Cairo University
“Movies and Misconceptions” at Menoufiya University
“Egyptian and American Marriage and Family Life” at
Menoufiya
“What Egyptians Want to Know about America” at Menoufiya
“Mutual Misconceptions: American and
Arab Stereotypes” Multi-university Symposium
Made about
40 appearances on Egyptian, Saudi, and American television.
Launched a
new online and print publication series on US-Arab Issues.
Set up project
partnerships with the Levin Institute of SUNY, Chronicle of Higher Education,
and Northwestern University,
and American University
in Washington.
Faculty
Adviser for Green Hands and for the US Solar Decathlon Project.
Participant
in Middle East and Africa Summit on Renewable
Energy and Egyptian Business Summit
on Global Climate Change.
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERI CA. National President. Largest international affairs non-profit
organization in the United States with 86 local world affairs councils, 15 national
affiliates, 13 int’l affiliates, and 484,000 members and participants. 1996 - 2006.
Increased
national revenues 35-fold in ten years.
Ran annual
national conference. Quintupled
conference attendance to 500.
Led the
national leadership travel program: 24
Leadership Missions, national board, and people-to-people diplomacy trips to
date. Created 12 new international
partnerships.
Ran 21 nationwide program series with World Bank,
EPA, European Union, UN Foundation, Intel, American Academy
of Diplomacy, Carnegie, and State Department.
Ran Academic
WorldQuest, a national high school world affairs knowledge competition in Washington each
year.
Helped
build five major nationwide flagship programs for the council system: Great Decisions, Academic
WorldQuest, World in Transition, Radio Program It’s Your World,
and the Know Your World travel
program.
Set up
2000-person speaker referral service.
Arranged 25 nationwide book tours.
Conducted
over 60 local board workshops and 24 professional development workshops.
Created a
publication series on management issues.
Wrote 21 operations papers.
CITIZENS NETWORK FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Director of Civic Initiatives,
Volunteer, and Exchanges Programs for the former Soviet
Union. Part of US foreign
aid program. 1993 - 95.
Administered
three USAID contracts worth $4m.
Launched
civil society development programs in Russia
and Central Asia. Set up 26
US -
Eurasian partnerships in agriculture, business, banking, media, education, and
non-profit work.
PEACE CORPS. Regional
Director for Eastern Europe, Soviet Republics,
Middle East, Asia, and Pacific. 1989 – 93.
Led
largest expansion in Peace Corps history since the agency’s founding by Sargent
Shriver. Established 22 new country
programs in Eastern Europe, former USSR,
Central Asia, Mongolia, China.
Negotiated
11 Peace Corps country agreements with Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia,
China.
Managed
$45m budget, staff of 400, 1600 volunteers, and 45 country programs. Raised $8m from foundations and $6m from AID.
Appointed 162 individuals to staff positions.
Launched
major small business initiative for post-communist countries. Put over 1,000 small business volunteers into
the field.
Restructured
107 field projects in education, agriculture, health, environment, small
business, and urban affairs. Started 18
new language teaching programs.
Served as
a Member of Senior Executive Service (ES-3).
Three management awards.
WHITE HOUSE. Director of
International Economic Affairs on the Foreign Affairs Staff (NSC) House. Position held as Foreign Service Officer. 1988 – 89.
Handled
international policy on environment and conservation, science and technology,
export control, nuclear non-proliferation, oceans and space.
Created
the US
import-export ban on elephant ivory which led to the worldwide ban on ivory
trade, the collapse of poaching, and the resurgence of elephant herds.
Wrote
presidential directive on export control and high-technology trade.
Helped
establish virtual worldwide moratorium on whaling.
Helped get
USG approval for the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
Deputy Director of
Office of Strategic Technology Affairs. 1981 - 87.
Served as
Executive Secretary of the Senior Interagency Committee on Technology Transfer. Chaired the Interagency Committee on Special
Projects.
Chaired
two major US Government conferences.
Drafted
and negotiated the International Supercomputer Safeguard Regime.
Helped
create the Missile Technology Control Regime, the international companion
agreement to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Played a
key role in creating and negotiating the US-India Agreement on High Technology
which stimulated a rapprochement with India
and increased US
trade by $1.5bn per year.
U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON. Consular Officer. 1980 - 81.
Handled
600 Iranian asylum cases after 1979 Khomeini Revolution.
Carried
out consular functions such as visas, immigration, social security, passports,
nationality determinations, deaths, US citizen arrests, emergencies, and
refugee cases.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. Assistant
Lecturer at Cambridge University. 1974 – 1979.
Taught
courses on Middle East, Pacific, monetized and
non-monetized economies, political systems, political movements, social
organization, and belief systems.
Organized
international conference on trade and exchange leading to a Cambridge
University Press book The Kula: New
Perspectives on Massim Exchange.
Served as
a Board Member of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Served as a
Board Member of the Cambridge
Museum of Anthropology
and Archaeology.
Directed the documentary film Trobriand Cricket: an ingenious response to
colonialism.
Served as a consultant to BBC-TV
series Face Values and to the BBC Divisions Horizon and World
about Us.
Served as a consultant and
translator for the BBC-TV’s documentary The Trobriand Experiment.
UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA
NEW GUINEA. Instructor and Research
Fellow. 1969 – 73.
Served as a founding faculty member
of country's first university.
Served as
Legislative Advisor to the Chief Minister of PNG for anti-corruption
legislation.
Helped
draft The Parliamentary Integrity Act
and The Senior Public Officials’
Integrity Acts, Both are still in
effect today.
Served as
Advisor to the PNG Constitutional Planning Commission for drafting key
provisions of the Leadership Code of
the PNG Constitution.
Served as researcher and author in a national study of first PNG
parliamentary elections.
Conducted
two years of field research in the Trobriand Islands off the eastern end of the
island of New Guinea.
PEACE CORPS. Volunteer in Turkey. 1964 – 66.
Served as English language faculty
member at Gazi National Teachers' Training
College, now Gazi
University, in Ankara
Helped
write the national English curriculum for Turkish high schools.
Served as an English teacher in the
Adana Boys’ High School in southern Turkey.
Conducted cross-cultural training in
summer school at the University of the Bosphorus (then Robert
College) in Istanbul.
Served as Cross-Cultural Training
Director for five Peace Corps training projects.
APPENDIX 1
EDUCATION, HONORS, AFFILIATIONS, LANGUAGES
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Anthropology and Development. Cambridge University.
M.A. Cambridge
University.
M.A.
Anthropology of the Middle East. University
of California at Berkeley.
Certificate
in Social Anthropology. Cambridge University.
B.A. High
Honors History and Political Science. Emory University.
Executive
Programs. Kennedy School
of Government. Harvard University.
Foreign Service
Institute. Washington, DC.
HONORS
Emory
Medal for Distinguished Public Service (with wife Marianne).
Commendation
from President Ronald Reagan.
Commendation
from President George H. W. Bush.
Commendation
from National Security Advisor Colin L. Powell.
Commendation
from National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.
Superior
Honor Award, State Department.
Merit
Award, State Department.
Blue
Ribbon, American Film Festival.
Georges
Sadoul Prize (Emmy equivalent) for Best Foreign Documentary.
Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship.
National
Defense Foreign Language Fellowship in Turkish.
Rhodes
Scholarship Nomination from Alabama.
Phi Beta
Kappa National Academic Honor Society
ODK
National Leadership Society.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Oxford and Cambridge
Society
King's
College, Cambridge
Malone
Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies
Middle East Studies Association
Civicus,
World Non-profit Alliance
LANGUAGES
Turkish
Kiriwinan
(an Austronesian language)
Limited command: Kirgiz,
Kazak, Uygur (Turkish in China)
APPENDIX 2
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
AT AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
·
Put
on nine cross-cultural symposia at different Egyptian national universities.
·
Made
35 appearances on Egyptian, Saudi, Albanian, Turkish, and American television.
·
Took
30 AUC students and faculty on field trips to the US.
·
Took
40 AUC students to the Arab League, the Suez Canal,
the Alexandria Library.
·
Ran
a series of downtown public lectures and films on global warming.
·
Led
a film and discussion series on issues Egypt
and the US
both face.
·
Organized
student exchange delegations to Rice
University and to AUC.
·
Helped
to get global warming on the national political agenda of Egypt.
·
Organized
a student seminar series and a publication on the Egyptian Revolution.
·
Ran
an AUC film and discussion series on the USA.
·
Taught
the first-ever thematic course on the history and culture of the American
society.
·
Formed
a 15-person team of Egyptians and Americans intended to be lifelong.
AS PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD
AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA
·
Organized
and led 10 national conferences covering every region of the world.
·
Organized
24, and led 12, fact-finding missions by nationwide council leaders to China,
Japan, Korea, Singapore, Poland, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Israel, Northern Ireland,
Brazil.
·
Launched
a national series of teacher development workshops on the Islamic world.
·
Started
an annual national high school competition called Academic WorldQuest testing knowledge of world governments,
economies, societies, languages cultures, geographies.
·
Set
up over 100 speaking tours around the council system by prominent foreigners.
AS A PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT
THE CITIZENS NETWORK FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
·
Administered
USAID grants on private farming and NGO development in Russia, Ukraine,
and Central Asia.
·
Set
up 26 American Farm Bureau partnerships with the new private farmers’
associations.
·
Sent
95 US farmers to former USSR and brought 60 Soviet private farmers to
the US.
AS REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF
THE PEACE CORPS
·
Set
up 22 new PC programs in Eastern Europe, former USSR,
Mongolia, China, Vanuatu.
·
Fielded
over 1,000 volunteers in small business, environmental protection, and TEFL.
·
Negotiated
11 new Peace Corps agreements with host governments.
·
Launched
15 new business consulting centers in Poland,
Russia, Ukraine.
·
Helped
staff 48 new Polish teacher training colleges with English teachers.
·
Started
new PC language programs in Estonian, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian,
Mongolian, Chinese, Turkmen, and Pidgin.
·
Launched
evaluation and restructuring of 107 Peace Corps field projects.
·
Restarted
the Peace Corps in the Philippines
after a hostage-taking and evacuation crisis.
ON THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
STAFF OF THE WHITE HOUSE
·
Conceived
and executed, with Presidential approval, the US import-export ban on elephant ivory
which led to listing of the elephant as a Category I Endangered Species and a worldwide
ban on trade in ivory. Greatly reduced
poaching and began the resurgence of elephant herds.
·
Helped
get several countries to stop whaling in support of the ban on commercial
whaling.
·
Got
White House approval for the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion.
·
With
Colin Powell and the Soviet Ambassador, got the Soviet Coast Guard to rescue a stranded
whale in the Bering Sea in winter.
·
Conceived,
drafted, and got signed a presidential directive regularizing procedures and
diminishing interagency conflict in the handling of high technology export
cases.
AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT
·
Won
USG battle to send a supercomputer to India for monsoon - global warming
research.
·
Had
a key role in securing agreement with India
on the licensing and internal controls over US high technology equipment. MOU was a key element to US-Indian
rapprochement.
·
Helped
create the Senior Interagency Committee on Technology Transfer, bringing about
interagency cooperation in an area of operations characterized by perpetual
conflict.
·
Handled
600 Iranian political asylum cases while serving at the embassy in London.
AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
·
Broadcasting
of Trobriand Cricket on BBC-TV four
times.
·
Consultant
to BBC-TV series Face Values about
ethnocentrism.
·
Helped
form Film Committee of Royal Anthropological Institute to build ethnographic
filming.
·
Made
Trobriand Cricket: an ingenious response
to colonialism.
·
Co-edited
high school teaching module on Trobriands for Inner London Education Authority.
·
Consultant
to British VSO (Peace Corps equivalent).
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA
NEW GUINEA
·
Helped
start the country’s first university.
·
Served
as Legislative Adviser to the PNG’s first Prime Minister for two anti-corruption
laws.
·
Helped
write the Leadership Code of the PNG Constitution.
·
Donated
300 Trobriand myths and folktales to the university library.
AS A PEACE CORPS
VOLUNTEER AND STAFF MEMBER
·
Served
as Cross-Cultural Studies Coordinator for five PC training projects.
·
Editor
and principal writer for Peace Corps
Supplement for Turkey.
·
Author
of “Culture as an Invisible Prison” in Peace Corps Reader.
·
Helped
write the English teaching curriculum for Turkish high schools.
·
Served
as a volunteer teacher in Adana, Ankara, and Robert
College.
AT EMORY UNIVERSITY
·
Championed
integration during the Civil Rights Movement.
·
Served
on student committee to integrate Emory
.
APPENDIX 3
PERSONAL
RESEARCH GOALS
BOOK ON THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
I
experienced the Egyptian Revolution first-hand, from its inception in January
2011 until my departure in August of that year.
I was not a participant but many of my students, friends, and colleagues
were This is an advantage in that I
have many eyewitness accounts, interview records, photographs, and media
account of events. In addition, I also
gained as an intimate sense of the feel of the city and the aspirations of many
participants.
Much of
spring semester AUC teaching came to focus on the revolution. Censorship and self-censorship fears were
gone and stories came pouring out from all directions about people’s
experiences under the Mubarak regime. I
proposed to my core team of 10 Egyptian students, with whom I had worked very
closely, that we do a publication based on their understanding of what was
happening. Each student wrote essays on
what they saw as the causes of the revolution, what happened to them at Tahrir
Square and during first three months of the unfolding events, and what kind of
Egypt they wanted to see emerge.
Those
essays were published in booklet form with the title “How We See the
Revolution” on May 1.
Following
on that initiative, the A-Team, as we called ourselves, organized a 100-person
conference in mid May on the theme “Is the Arab World Going Democratic?” It included students from Cairo University,
Helwan University,
Ain Shams
University, Menoufiya
University in the Delta, the British University
in Egypt, the Egyptian International University,
and the Ramses Girls’ College. Also
included were participants from Libya,
Algeria, Morocco, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen,
Jordan, and Syria. The open-floor town-meeting-style discussion
centered on authoritarianism versus democracy, the processes of democratization
in other societies, the advantages and disadvantages of democracy, addressing the issue of corruption, holding
free and fair elections, curtailing the power of the security services, the
importance of legitimacy and the writing of new constitutions, and what role
individuals could play in such changes.
Five 90-minute videos of these sessions, mostly in Arabic, were posted
on the web.
In
addition, I led the A-Team through a series of extracurricular discussions on
key features of democracies, main elements of constitutions, how corruption has
been dealt with in other countries, the concepts of flawed and full democracies,
the long process democratization, and why not to idealize democracy. We also discussed the American, French,
Russian, Turkish, and Iranian Revolutions.
Out of
these beginnings have come to date about 2,000 pages of research records, a
4-person Egyptian team reporting everyday from Egypt, and a book outline (see
Appendix 4). To date, the research team
has produced more than 60 reports on many facets of the changes. One team member is documenting every
corruption trial, another team member is seeking to document every
demonstration and protest for the 10 years prior to the revolution, another is
documenting all the new political parties (above 50 so far), and another is
covering the trial of Mubarak.
Our project
revolves around three questions: what caused this revolution; how the
revolution unfolded, including how and why its opposition acted against it; and
how the revolution changes, or fails to change, Egyptian government and
society. The third question – long-term
changes or failures to change – will be the key question of the work. What will the changed Egypt be like?
We plan to
continue our research effort until the shape of those changes can be seen. Mubarak is deposed and his trial is
on-going. Parliamentary elections start
on November 28 and continue for six weeks. An ill-defined constitution-writing
process starts thereafter with the announced intention of writing a new
constitution, not amending the old one.
After that, presidential elections will occur, probably in 2013, with already
15 announced candidates. When these
processes are completed, we will make our first assessment as to when we draw
the line on the research and produce the written report. The current thinking is that the research
period will continue probably into 2014, with the written account emerging in
2015.
BOOK ON THE MAKING OF TROBRIAND
CRICKET
Many people
have urged me to write up the story of Trobriand Cricket, but I have so far resisted. Having now changed my mind, I want to write a
short book as a companion to classroom screenings, for classes in making field
documentaries, and to preserve a full record of the project, not all of which
is in the film.
The first
of the book’s essays is already out, “Structure and Message in Trobriand
Cricket,” which is about the message content of the film and how it was put
into the film. A second essay will be
about the many purposes that the stake-holders and participants attached to the
project and how those purposes played out after the film was over. A third essay will be about the many problems
that had to be solved in making the film as well as the financing and
distribution issues associated with the project over its 35-year history. A fourth essay will be about the audience
reaction to the film – on the Trobriands, in Papua New Guinea, in Britain, in
Australia, in the US, in the community of film-makers, and within the field of
anthropology. A fifth essay will be a
semiotic analysis of the chants accompanying cricket dances. A sixth essay will be about cultural
syncretism. A seventh and final essay
will be about what has happened to the game of Trobriand cricket since the film
was made.
The Egypt book will
take precedent over the cricket book. I
will write certain essays over the next three or so years and then finish the
book after the Egypt
work is done.
BOOK ON AMERICAN SOCIETY, WRITTEN
ESPECIALLY FOR NON-AMERICANS
I have
lived outside the US
for 19 years and taught for 16 of those years.
Thousands of people have asked me questions about American society,
usually arising from things they could not understand and had no one around
them that they could ask. Some of these
questions I could handle and some I couldn’t.
Years ago I started searching for a book that would contain answers, at
least insight, into most of these questions.
I don’t think such a book has been written, though scattered texts exist
that tackle a few of the issues. Most
American histories are far too long and assume a great deal of prior knowledge
about American society. Most foreigners
won’t touch them and are bewildered if they do.
A few of
these questions are: what do Americans
mean by freedom? how did the central
concept of American society come to be freedom?
how did Americans get their rights and how do they keep from having them
taken away? do Jews control America? why are Americans such strong supporters of
free market economies? is everybody
sexually free? how did sexual freedom
come about? why do Americans have such
“thin” kinship systems? why do children leave their parents so early? why is
American society so violent? how is that Americans claim to be so religious and
yet religion seems to be getting weaker and weaker? and hundreds more.
I took
these issues up thematically in my AUC course “What is America?” I produced a 250-page course book at
AUC. I want to turn that into a proper
manuscript at some point in the future.
APPENDIX 4
THE NEW EGYPT:
THE SOCIETY EMERGING FROM THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
(provisional title)
Chapter 1: What This Book Is All About
-
Personal
circumstances that led to the project
-
What
is a revolution?
PART 1: CONDITIONS THAT LED TO THE REVOLUTION
Chapter 2: Historical Roots Underlying the Revolution
-
5000-year-old
state structure
-
one-person
rule in many different forms
-
example
of Prophet Mohamed
-
Arab
patriarchy
-
French
occupation, especially the French Revolution
-
succession
from Mohamed Ali to
King Farouk
-
modern
education
-
British
occupation
-
independence
movement
-
overthrow
of King Farouk
Chapter 3: Causes of the Revolution Since the 1952
Free Officers Coup
-
military
mind-set holding top positions in government, especially security portfolios
-
June
1967 war defeat
-
weak
safety valves
-
rigged
elections
-
increasing
use of repressive security measures
-
socialist
education system
-
infitah
and revolution of rising expectations
-
population
growth
-
television
-
growth
of corruption
-
youth
unemployment
-
Bashar
al Assad’s case and Gamal as possible successor
-
liberalized
elections of 2005
-
censoring
of news about president’s health
-
continuing
emergency law
-
US
and Egyptian policy on Palestine
-
rapid
growth of internet, Facebook, twitter
Chapter 4: Precipitating Events Leading to the
Uprising
-
Death
of Khaled Said
-
“We
are all Khaled Said” Facebook page
-
Rigged
elections of November 2010
-
Expansion
of security service abuses on YouTube
-
Self-immolation
of Bouazizi in Tunisia
-
Downfall
of Ben Ali in
Tunisia
PART 2: THE TAHRIR UPRISING AND ITS AFTERMATH
Chapter 5: The Uprising
-
How
it began
-
Initial
demands
-
Neutrality
of the military
-
Rapid
growth of numbers
-
Expanding
to other cities
-
Spirit
of the Revolution
Chapter 6: Changes after the Fall of Mubarak
-
Supreme
Military Council
-
Turnover
of top people
-
Arrests
and trials
-
Freer
press
-
Amendments
to the constitution
-
Diminished
policing and increased crime
-
Changing
the security police
-
Dissolving
the NDP
-
Detentions
by the military
Chapter 7: Different Perspectives on the Revolution
-
Many
different points of view
-
Renewed
demonstrations
-
Realization
of how long it would take
-
National
pride
-
More
open political competition
Chapter 8: Parliamentary Elections
-
Formation
of new parties
-
Candidates
-
Campaigning
-
Voting:
free and how fair?
-
Comparison
with elections under Mubarak regime
-
Outcome
Chapter 9: New Constitution
-
Process
of creating
-
Debates
on key issues
-
Provisions
-
Ratification
Chapter 10: Presidential Elections
-
New
candidates
-
Campaigns
-
Free
and fair voting
-
Comparison
with Mubarak-era elections
-
Outcome
PART 3: CHANGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE REVOLUTION
Chapter 11: Political Changes
-
emphasis: long-term institutionalized changes and
changes in attitudes and beliefs
-
presidency
-
parliament
-
greater
independence for judiciary
-
parties
-
media
-
greater
freedom of information
-
foreign
policy changes
-
corruption
-
security
services
-
police
tactics
-
Egypt’s standing the world
Chapter 12: Economic Changes
-
outside
assistance
-
unemployment
-
minimum
wage
-
taxes
-
incentives
for business start-ups
-
government
debt
-
government
budget priorities
-
government
contracting procedures
-
privatizations?
-
greater
emphasis on agriculture and food supply
Chapter 13: Changes in Attitudes and Beliefs
-
a
major national initiative to believe in
-
greater
national pride
-
strengthened
belief in rule of law
-
greater
free speech and press
-
decreased
adulation for national leader
Chapter 14: What Did Not Change
-
treaty
obligations
-
the
military
-
school
system
-
universities
-
population
growth
-
role
of religion
Chapter 15: Is Egypt a Better Society Because of
the Revolution?
-
a
flawed democracy
-
challenges
ahead
-
a
better society?
APPENDIX 5
TEACHING OF UNIVERSITY COURSES
COURSES I CAN
TEACH IMMEDIATELY
What is America?
Big Global Issues We All Face
Globalization
Middle Eastern Societies
Modern Turkey
COURSES I COULD TEACH WITH ADDITIONAL PREPARATION
Arab World
Modern Egypt
Environment and Society
Non-profits Worldwide
COURSES I HAVE TAUGHT BEFORE
Political Movements
American Government
Non-Monetized Economies
Pacific Societies
Social Science Theory
Social Organization
Documentary Films
RECOGNITION
Nominated for AUC Excellence in Teaching Award 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Chosen as Best Lecturer in the Cambridge
Archaeology and Anthropology Faculty 1979.
APPENDIX 6
PUBLIC SPEECHES GIVEN 1996 - 2011
Is the Arab World Going Democratic? (Cairo)
Iran and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (Cairo)
What is Global Warming? (Tirana)
Where is Egypt Headed? (Houston)
The Roots of Islamophobia in the
West (Cairo)
Is the Nile Delta Going Under Water? (Cairo)
The Big Issues of the 2008 US Elections (Cairo)
What’s the
Difference between Republicans and Democrats? (Cairo)
Cross-Cultural
Dialogue: What Good is It? (Cairo)
Mutual
Misconceptions that Americans and Arabs Hold of Each Other (Cairo)
Is the Age
of Oil Coming to an End? (Cairo)
Big
Problems that Mankind Faces (Ottawa)
Are Islam and Democracy Compatible? (Cairo)
Reasons for Invading Iraq: What Do They Look Like Now? (Cairo)
Bush, Congress, and Iraq (Cairo)
Is Neoconservatism Finished? (Cairo)
Gaining and Keeping Freedom of
Speech (Cairo)
Should US Stop Promoting Democracy?
(Cairo)
What Kind of Superpower Do We Want
to Be? (Springfield)
The UN System: Strengths and Weaknesses (New York)
Schools of American Foreign Policy (Richmond)
What is Evangelical Christianity? (Cairo)
Gun Control in America (Cairo)
Politics of Global Warming (San Diego)
Religion and Politics in America (Cairo)
Battle over Abortion in America (Cairo)
Origins of Voluntarism in America (Tokyo)
Breaking the Ice with India (Portland)
Problems That Can Only Be Solved
with Multilateral Cooperation (Pittsburgh)
Globalization: Who Wins and Who
Loses? (New York)
Benefits of Globalization (Cairo)
US Foreign Aid Program: Success or Not? (Jacksonville)
Future of World Affairs Council
System (Washington)
European Union: Rival or Partner? (Washington)
Turkey and the European Union (San Antonio)
Turkey: a Case Study in National
Development (Sioux Falls)
Turkey:
Role Model for the Islamic World? (Asheville)
Islam and Democracy in Turkey (Montgomery)
Ataturkist Revolution (Savannah)
Turning the World around on
Elephants (Anchorage)
Saving the Elephant: One Successful Model for Solving
International Problems (Seattle)
Major Achievements of the Peace
Corps (Augustana College)
Private Farming in Russia and Ukraine
(Washington)
Is Peace Possible in the Middle East? (St.
Louis)
Israel and Palestine: Roots of the Conflict (Charlotte)
Challenges We Face from the Islamic
World (Washington)
MEDIA
APPEARANCES 2006-2011
“The
Egyptian Revolution” on BBC Radio 4
“Will the Uprising in Syria
Succeed?” on Nile TV
“Is Stability in Iraq
Possible?” on Saudi TV
No-Fly Zone for Libya?
on Saudi TV
“Causes of the Egyptian Uprising” on CBS Evening News
“Anti-Americanism in Egypt”
on CBS Evening News
“Youth Unemployment in Egypt”
on CBS Morning News
“Government Repression in Egypt” on CBS
Morning News
“What Way Forward for Gaza?”
on Saudi TV
“The War in Afghanistan”
on Nile TV’s Daily Debate
“What is Obama’s Asian Tour All About?” on Nile TV’s Daily Debate
“The American Mid-term Elections” on Nile TV’s World Today
“US Arms Sales to Saudi
Arabia” on Nile TV’s Daily Debate
“Is Progress Possible Now on the Israel-Palestine Conflict?” on Saudi
TV
“Why is There Political Turmoil in Thailand” on Saudi
TV
“Iran and the
Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty” on Nile
TV Frontline
“What Do We Need to Know about Global Warming?” on Albanian
Planet TV
“How Do You See Egypt?”
on Nile TV
“What American Studies Is All About in Egypt”
on Nile TV
“Afghanistan, Pakistan and
the Taliban” on Saudi TV
“Choosing an Unusual Cross-cultural Career” on Nile TV
“Islam’s Image in the West” on Nile TV Frontline
“Obama’s First Year” on Nile TV Frontline
“Defense Department’s Role in Global Warming” on NBC
News
“Global Warming’s Impact on Egypt” on Nile TV
“Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict” on Nile TV
“The Iranian Elections” on Saudi TV
“The Uighur-Chinese Conflict in China” on Saudi
TV
“US, Iran,
and Obama Administration” on Saudi TV
“The International Criminal Court and President Omar al Bashir” on Saudi
TV
“The Middle East Peace Process” on Nile
TV
“Will There Be a New Cold War?” on Nile
TV
“The US
Elections 2008”
on Saudi TV
“The Status of Forces Agreement between the US
and Iraq” on Saudi
TV
“The US Elections 2008” on
Brookings Doha - Washington Closed-Circuit TV
“The Primaries and the Elections” on US Embassy TV at an Egyptian Press
Conference
“The 2008 US Elections” on Egyptian TV Channel 1, Dream TV, Orbit, Nile
News, Egyptian TV News
“The 2008 US
Elections” on Al Hurra TV, Oman
TV, Al Jazeera TV, and Al Hayat TV
APPENDIX 7
CONFERENCES LED
AT AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
2011 - Is the Arab World Going Democratic?
2010 - Islamophobia in America
and Anti-Americanism in Egypt
2009 - Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Rice University
and AUC
2008 - The US
Elections 2008
2008 - Beyond Borders:
an Egyptian-American Dialogue
2007 - Are Islam and Democracy Compatible?
2007 - Bringing the World Home: US-Egyptian Youth Dialogue
on US Foreign Policy
2006 - Dissent in America
AT WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS
OF AMERICA
2006
- The World’s Rising Powers: China, India,
Brazil, Russia
2005 - Tackling the World’s Toughest
Issues
2004 - What Does the Future Hold for
the US and Asia?
2003 - The Future of the Americas
2002 - US and Europe:
Rivals or Partners?
2001 - Reconnecting the United States
and the United Nations
2000 - Challenges We Face from the
Islamic World
1999 - The US and Canada: Independent Partners Facing the World
1998
- The European Union
1997 - What Should We Do about Immigration?
1996 - Intermestic Issues
AT THE PEACE CORPS
1992
- Development Issues in the Pacific
1991
- Voluntary Assistance in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR
1990
- Development Issues in the Islamic World
1968
- Methods of Cross-Cultural Training
WITHIN THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT
1987
– High Technology and the Arms Race
1986
– Interagency Collaboration in High Tech Sales and Diversions
AT CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY
1978
– Bringing the Kula Up to Date: new
perspectives on a famous trading system.
(co-led
with Prof. Sir Edmund Leach)
APPENDIX 8
TRACK
RECORD OF TROBRIAND CRICKET
AWARDS
Blue Ribbon
at American Film Festival in 1977.
Georges
Sadoul Prize for Best Foreign Documentary.
Paris
Film Critics in 1976.
TELEVISION BROADCASTS
BBC (4)
Irish TV
Belgian TV
(2)
ORTF France
ABC TV – Australia (6)
New Zealand TV
Iranian TV
NHK TV – Japan
CBC - Canada
PNG TV – Papua New Guinea
SELECTED SCREENINGS WITH
PRESENTATIONS BY DR. LEACH
Oxford
University, AUC Cairo, American University, Cambridge University, Royal Anthropological
Institute’s Film Committee, British Association for the Advancement of Science,
Wesleyan University, Yale University, University of North Carolina, University
of California at Berkeley, Australian National University, Edinburgh University,
University of Sussex. Also about 200
other presentations since 1975.
APPENDIX 9
FELLOWSHIPS
AND GRANTS ACQUIRED
FELLOWSHIPS
2006 –
Malone Travel Fellowship in Arabic Studies
1975 – UK
Social Science Research Fellowship for Ph. D. Research
1967-69 –
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
1960-64 –
National Methodist Fellowship
GRANTS ACQUIRED,
PRIMARILY TO RUN THE PROGRAMS BELOW
European Union (2)
Knight Foundation
Carnegie Corporation (2)
UN Foundation (3)
German Marshall Fund
Better World Fund
MacNeill-Lehrer Productions
Argyros Foundation
Fares Foundation (2)
Delavan Foundation
Kuwait
Government (2)
US Institute of Peace
Cox Foundation (2)
American Academy of Diplomacy (4)
Wege Foundation
Taiwan
Government (4)
NATIONWIDE
PROGRAM SERIES RUN
“Rising Powers” with American Academy
of Diplomacy
“Can We Break Our Addiction to Oil?” with WorldWatch
Institute
“Expanding Freedom and Building Democracy Worldwide” with
NDI and IRI
“The People Speak” with the UN Foundation
“By the People” with MacNeill - Lehrer Productions
“Rising Anti-Americanism” with American Academy
of Diplomacy
“Human Rights Worldwide” with State Department’s Bureau of
Human Rights
“Transatlantic Agenda” with European Union
“Reforming the UN” with American Academy
of Diplomacy
“Space Weapons or Space Arms Control?” with Carnegie
Corporation
“What We Need to Know about the European Union” with
European Union
“America: How Secure Are We?” with Fourth Freedom Forum
and Stanley
Foundation
“US
Foreign Policy” with State Department
“International Development Issues” with World Bank
“International Environmental Issues” with EPA
“Mexican Migration” with US-Mexican Joint Commission on
Migration
“Contemporary Europe” with
German Marshall Fund
“Global Trends” with Intel Corporation
“Future of Korean
Peninsula” with Korean
Economic Institute, Korean Embassy, State
“Future of American Diplomacy” with American Academy
of Diplomacy
“Past, Present, and Future of NATO” with NATO and State
Department
APPENDIX 10
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Edited with Prof.
Sir Edmund
Leach (no
relation). Cambridge University
Press. 1983.
The Kabisawali Movement in the Trobriand Islands. Cambridge
Ph.D. Dissertation. 1978.
MAJOR GOVERNMENT POLICY DOCUMENTS
Presidential Directive Banning Import and Export of Elephant
Ivory. White House. 1989.
Presidential Directive on Control of Dual-Use Technology. White House. 1988.
Memorandum of Understanding with India on Supercomputers. State Department. 1986.
Memorandum of Understanding with India on the Transfer of Strategic
Technology. State 1984.
International Supercomputer Safeguard Regime. State Department. 1984.
The Parliamentary Integrity Act.
Government of Papua
New Guinea.
1972.
The Senior Public Officials' Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea. 1972.
FILMS
Trobriand Cricket: an ingenious response to colonialism. With film-maker Gary
Kildea. 16mm documentary film. Government of Papua
New Guinea and Cambridge
University. 1975.
Blue Ribbon, American Film
Festival. 1977.
Georges Sadoul Prize (Emmy
equivalent) from Paris Film Critics.
1976.
Broadcast on national television in
10 countries.
Circulating worldwide in educational
film libraries.
Used widely as classroom teaching
tool around the world.
ARTICLES
“A New
Vision for the Future of Nuclear Weapons” (in Arabic and English) in US-Arab
Issues, Issue No.2, November, 2009.
Also published in Arabic in Islam Online, November, 2009.
“America
Alone: the Neo-Conservatives and the Global
Order” Review article in Foreign
Policy
Association
Book Review, December, 2006.
"The Emergence of Private
Farming in Russia"
in Journal of the Problems of
Post-Communism
Vol. 42: No. 4. July - August 1995.
"Peace
Corps and the Post-Communist World" in Peace Corps Times.
Winter, 1993.
"Structure
and Message in Trobriand Cricket" University of California
Independent Learning and
Media Center.
1976. Reprinted in several texts on
film-making.
"Land
and People: the Trobriand Islanders" Curriculum Module with Michael
Sallnow for Inner
London Education
Authority. Basil Blackwell, ILEA, Royal
Anthropological Institute. 1979.
“Imdeduya:
a Kula Folktale from Kiriwina” in Bikmaus: a journal of Papua New Guinea
affairs,
ideas, and
the arts. Vol. II: No. 1. August, 1981.
"The
1972 Elections in the Kula Open" David Stone (ed.) Prelude to Self-Government. ANU
Press.
1976.
"Making
the Best of Tourism" Ronald May (ed.) Priorities in Melanesian Development. ANU
Press.
1973.
"The
Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes" with Alan Dundes and Bora
Ozkok in
Directions in Sociolinguistics: an Ethnography of Communications, John J.
Gumperz and Dell
Hymes
(editors), Holt Rhinehart Winston. 1972.
"Culture
as an Invisible Prison" Peace Corps Reader. 1971.
EDITED
SERIES
American University in Cairo
US-Arab Issues, Numbers
1-3, 2009-2010.
How We See the Revolution, 2011
Seeing Ourselves as Others See
Us: AUC-Rice Cross-cultural Explorations, 2011
World
Affairs Councils of America
National Website -
www.worldaffairscouncils.org
Recommended
Speakers (annual publication)
Monthly
National Speakers Digest
WACA
National Newsletter
National
Leadership Mission Trip Reports (18)
Operations
Papers (series of 21 management studies)
Your
Classroom, Your Council, and the World:
a national school program manual
What
We Need to Know about the European Union
America: How Secure Are We?
World
Affairs Journalism Fellowship Program
National
Council System Brochure
National
Factsheets
PHOTOGRAPHS
Over 150
photographs published in Cultural Anthropology, The Trobriand
Islanders (curriculum module for London
schools), Visual Anthropology, Ethnographic Films, Structure and Message in
Trobriand Cricket, Radio Times, and others.
