I am designated as the incoming (2011-12) chair, Dept of Political Science, American University in Cairo, (will lecture on civil society and clientelism in March 2011) and a professor emeritus pictured in the Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts, at the University of Texas at Austin, where I taught courses until 2011 on:
In addition to the politics of international oil, my research interests include banking systems in Islamic Mediterranean countries, Islamic banking, and the development of civil societies in the Arab world. In The Mediterranean Debt Crescent (1996, 1997) I examined interrelationships between financial and political liberalization in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey. I have also co-authored, with Robert Springborg, Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2nd edition 2010, and co-edited and contributed to The Poliics of Islamic Finance (Edinburgh University Press, 2004), with Rodney Wilson. Some of my online papers can be seen in my Curriculum Vitae , but you can also directly access the report of ACTA, a conservative "educational nonprofit based in Washington, D.C." that carries patriotism to absurdity. I am proud to be recognized (# 94 on their hit list).
