Joshua Mitchell, professor of political theory at Georgetown University, helped establish Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar and taught there from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq. Tocqueville in Arabia draws mainly on his Qatar years. But the Cairo-born Mitchell, son of a distinguished Arabist, also spent part of his childhood in the Middle East, and the book is deepened by his rich, personal relationship with that part of the world.
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