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Isam al Khafaji (born 25 November 1950, Baghdad)〔(I. al Khafaji, 1950 - ) at the Album Academicum of the University of Amsterdam.〕 is a prominent Iraqi political economist, historian and left wing intellectual, with an established reputation in the Arab world. ==Life== He holds two PhD degrees in economics and social sciences. He taught at the University of Amsterdam,〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/28/iraq.comment〕 and was a visiting professor and resident scholar in many important universities like Yale University,〔http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2007-March/006546.html〕 New York University and Brown University. His PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam in 2002 was entitled ''Tormented Births: Passages to Modernity in Europe and the Middle East''.〔 In 2004 he published this as a book that was highly acclaimed by prominent academics as iconoclastic, superb and outstanding. An Arabic edition is to be published by the Egyptian National Center for Translation. He published scholarly papers in Arabic and English, some of which have been translated into French and German, in addition to hundreds of articles in important papers like ''Al-Hayat'' and ''The Guardian'' besides being quoted, interviewed by ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''BBC'',〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3109570.stm〕 ''Al Arabiya'' and ''Al Jazeera''. He is also a contributing editor of ''Middle East Report'',〔http://www.merip.org/author/isam-al-khafaji〕 and an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington. He was chosen by the United Nations Development Program to supervise Syria’s production of its first Human Development program, and worked as a consultant to the World Bank. Al Khafaji was a participant in the "Future of Iraq" project before the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, and was the sole full time Iraqi adviser to the UN Secretary General’s envoy in the process of transition from the US administration to Iraqi hands. In 2008, he was a scholar with the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy.〔http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=89&EventID=62713〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isam al Khafaji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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