Mary jane deeb biography of abraham
This is a guest post by Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division..
Mary-Jane Deeb received PhD in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she worked with.
Mary-Jane Deeb
American Middle East expert, librarian and novelist
Mary-Jane Deeb is an American Middle East expert, librarian and novelist. Deeb worked at the Library of Congress, where she succeeded George Atiyeh as Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division.[1]
Life
Deeb's mother was Slovenian and her father was a Levantine from Egypt.
She grew up in Alexandria, where she spoke French at home and English at a school run by Irish nuns.[2]
Deeb gained her MA from the American University in Cairo in 1972, with a thesis on the Khazin family.[3] She gained her doctorate at the Paul H.
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She then taught for a decade at the American University in Washington, and was Director of the Omani Program there. During the Lebanese Civil War she spent four years in Beirut, working for international organizations including the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asi
