. Nathan J. Brown Website updated 2 January 2008 Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Director, Institute for Middle East Studies The George Washington University Nonresident Senior Associate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Carnegie web page for Nathan Brown available here Curriculum vitae Education § Ph. D., Politics, Princeton University, 1987 § Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, Cairo, 1983-4 § M.A., Politics, Princeton University, 1983 § B.A., University of Chicago, 1980 E-mail: nbrown at gwu.edu  Current and recent teaching § Undergraduate class, “Comparative Politics of the Middle East” § Graduate Seminar, “Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective” Selected interviews and op-eds available on the web § “Arab Spring Fever,” The National Interest, August 29, 2007 § “Democracy Works—Only Very Slowly,” International Herald Tribune, July 4, 2007 § “Kuwait's Thaw” Newsweek Interview, June 28, 2006 § “Unlikely Reformers: Egyptian Judges Challenge the Regime ,”Jurist, June 2006 § “Hamas or Chaos,” TomPaine.com, May 2006 § “Getting Real with Hamas,” Foreign Policy, January 2006 (registration required) § “Makeup of New Iraqi Government Crucial to Iraqi Future,” Council on Foreign Relations Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, December 2005 § WashingtonPost.com Live Discussion on the Iraqi Constitution, October 2005 § “Shari‘a, Women’s Rights, and the Iraqi Constitution,” Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable discussion with Isobel Coleman and Haleh Esfandiari, October 2005 § “Iraqi Constitution Likely to Be Approved; ‘Creeping Civil War’ Already Started,” Council on Foreign Relations interview with Bernard Gwertzman, October 2005 § Interview, Education for Peace in Iraq Center, August 2005 § “Everybody in Arab World Talking About Need for Wide Ranging Reforms,” Council on Foreign Relations Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, March 2004

Recent Research Published Books § Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) § Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws & the Prospects for Accountable Government   (SUNY Press, 2001) § The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 1997) § Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt (Yale University Press, 1990) Work on Islamist Parties in the Arab World available on the web § “What Islamists Need to be Clear About: The Case of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,” Carnegie Web Commentary, February 2007 (with Amr Hamzawy and Marina Ottaway) § “Pushing Toward Party Politics? Kuwait’s Islamic Constitutional Movement,” Carnegie Paper, January 2007 [Note: Mohammed Hussein Al-Dallal of the Islamic Constitutional Movement issued a response to this paper] § “Jordan and Its Islamist Movement: The Limits of Inclusion?” Carnegie Paper, November 2006 § “Islamist Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring Gray Zones,” Carnegie Paper No. 67, March 2006, with Amr Hamzawy and Marina Ottaawy Work on Palestinian Politics available on the web § “The Peace Process Has No Clothes: The Decay of the Palestinian Authority and the International Response,” Carnegie Web Commentary, June 15, 2007 § “Requiem for Palestinian Reform: Clear Lessons from a Troubled Record,” Carnegie Paper, February 2007 § “What Can Abu Mazin Do?” Carnegie Web Commentary, October 20, 2006, updated June 15, 2007 § “Living with Palestinian Democracy,” Carnegie Policy Brief No. 46, May 2006 § “Aftermath of the Hamas Tsunami,” Carnegie Web Commentary, February 2, 2006 § “Evaluating Palestinian Reform,” Carnegie Paper 59, June 2005 § Translation and commentary on draft Palestinian constitution (May 2003 draft), published by the Palestinian Center for Public Survey Research, October 2003 § “The Palestinian Reform Agenda,” Peaceworks report No. 48, United States Institute of Peace, December 2002 § “Democracy, History, and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum,” paper presented at the Adam Institute Conference on “Attitudes toward the Past in Conflict Resolution,” Jerusalem, November 2001 Note: This paper prompted a critique from the “Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace.” The critique and my response are available on the web here. § “The International Controversy Concerning Palestinian Textbooks,” lecture delivered at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, December 2002. § Short summary of research on Palestinian textbooks that originally appeared in “Teaching about Terrorism” a publication of CAJE, the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education.  Information about the publication can be obtained by calling (212) 268-4210 or by e-mailing publications@caje.org Work on Iraqi politics available on the web § “Is Political Consensus Possible in Iraq?” Carnegie Policy Outlook, November 2005 § “The Final Draft of the Iraqi Constitution: Analysis and Commentary,” September 2005 § “Iraq’s Constitutional Conundrum,” web commentary, August 2005 § “Final Update on Iraq’s Constitutional Process,” Carnegie Web Wommentary, August 2005 § “Iraq’s Constitutional Process Plunges Ahead,” Carnegie Policy Outlook, July 2005 § “Debating Islam in Post-Baathist Iraq,” Carnegie Policy Outlook, March 2005 § “Post-Election Iraq: Facing the Constitutional Challenge,” Carnegie Policy Outlook, February 2005 § “Transitional Administrative Law” for Iraq: analysis and commentary Work on Egyptian politics available on the web § “Egypt—Don’t Give up on Democracy Promotion,” Carnegie Policy Brief, June 2007 (with Michele Dunne and Amr Hamzawy) § “Egypt’s Controversial Constitutional Amendments,” Carnegie Web Commentary, March 2007 (with Michele Dunne and Amr Hamzawy) § “Can Egypt’s Troubled Elections Produce a More Democratic Future,” with Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie Policy Outlook, December 2005 § “Problems of Election Monitoring in Egypt,” with Amy Hawthorne, Al-Dimuqratiyya, November 2005 § “Egypt’s Judges Step Forward: The Judicial Election Boycott and Egyptian Reform,” with Hesham Nasr,” Carnegie Policy Outlook, May 2005 Work on Arab legal systems available on the web § Islamic law and the Egyptian constitution; two article with Clark Lombardi o “Do Constitutions Requiring Adherence to Shari`a Threaten Human Rights? How Egypt's Constitutional Court Reconciles Islamic Law with the Liberal Rule of Law,” 21 American University International Law Review 379-435 (2006) o “The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt on Islamic Law, Veiling and Civil Rights: An Annotated Translation of Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Case No. 8 of Judicial Year 17 (May 18, 1996),” 21 American University International Law Review 437 (2006) § “Islam, Human Rights, and Constitutionalism,” video of lecture delivered at Middlebury College, March 2, 2007 § “The Religious Aspects of Arab Constitutions,” video of lecture delivered at Catholic University, February 22, 2006 § “Criminal Justice and Prosecution in the Arab World,” study prepared with Hesham Nasr and Jill Crystal for the United Nations Development Program, Program on Governance in the Arab Region,” October 2004 § “Constitutions and Accountable Governments in the Arab world,” 2003 Constitution Address, Dickinson College, September 2003 § “Judicial Independence in the Arab World,” study prepared with Dr. Adel Omar Sherif of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt for the United Nations Development Program, Program on Governance in the Arab Region, September 2002 § “Arab Judicial Structures,” study prepared for the United Nations Development Program, Program on Governance in the Arab Region, August 2001 § “Mechanisms of Accountability in Arab Governance: The Present and Future of Judiciaries and Legislatures in the Arab World,” study prepared for the United Nations Development Program, Program on Governance in the Arab Region, December 2001 § “Women and Law in the Muslim World,” unpublished paper, 1996 § “Arab Administrative Courts and Judicial Control of the Bureaucracy,” paper presented to the annual conference of the Structure of Government Section, International Political Science Association, Ben-Gurion University, Israel , February 1997