“Since the earliest days of Americans’ engagement with the Middle East, U.S. officials have looked to Americans associated with the region’s universities to advance U.S. interests,” writes commentator and political veteran Pratik Chougule. His recent, intriguing book, American Universities in the Middle Fast and U.S. Foreign Policy: Intersections with American Interests, details how such policies […]
America’s Middle Eastern School Ties
Experienced political analyst and writer Pratik Chougule has written a fascinating new book on the history of American higher education efforts in the Muslim-majority countries of Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Qatar. In American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Intersections with American Interests, Chougule details the record of American university foundings in the wider Middle East, […]