I retired in 2016 after being a visiting research professor at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore and previously (2011-2014) serving as chair, Dept of Political Science, American University in Cairo. I am now 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:
I co-edited and contributed to The Arab Spring: Will it lead to democracy? with Ji-Hyang Jang (Macmillan, Palgrave 2013) and recently published memoirs of former Algerian student leaders,UGEMA: L'Union Generale des Etudiants Musulmans Algeriens (1955-1962): Temoignages (Algiers: Editions Casbah, 2010, 2nd enlarged ed. 2012). I teach Middle East politics and 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) and deplore the current silence about the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
