Ghada Talhami
Ghada Hashem Talhami was born in Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian parents and received her high school education at Queen Zein School in Amman and Whyteleafe County Grammar School for Girls, Surrey, England. She received a B.A. in Liberal Arts (cum laude) and Departmental Honors from Western College for Women (of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio), and an M.A. in US Foreign Policy from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a Ph. D. in African History from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
She was a visiting professor of African History at University of Illinois-Chicago, and for one year the Director of Arab Studies at the same school. She also served for one year as the Director of the Arab Information Center at Chicago, an office of the Arab League of States. She taught Middle East Politics, African Politics, Politics of the Third World, the Politics of Jerusalem, and Women of the Third World at Lake Forest College, where she holds the title of D. K. Pearsons Professor
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