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Tarek Heggy’s main themes are the need for economic, political, and cultural reform in Egypt. In his essay, “Why Do I Write?” he explains that his purpose is to encourage self-criticism, to defend the shared values of all civilization, to advocate freedom of belief and a culture of peace, to advance market economics, and to counter the “Goebbels-style propaganda machines operating in Egypt and the Arab world and their dangerous manipulation of public opinion.” |
Tarek Heggy’s main themes are the need for economic, political, and cultural reform in Egypt. In his essay, “Why Do I Write?” he explains that his purpose is to encourage self-criticism, to defend the shared values of all civilization, to advocate freedom of belief and a culture of peace, to advance market economics, and to counter the “Goebbels-style propaganda machines operating in Egypt and the Arab world and their dangerous manipulation of public opinion.” (http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3459131.html) |
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Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, Washington D.C.(USA). |
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Member of the Advisory Board of the RAND Organization "Centre for Middle East Public Policy" of the initiative for Middle Eastern Youth (IMEY) ( |
Member of the Advisory Board of the RAND Organization "Centre for Middle East Public Policy" of the initiative for Middle Eastern Youth (IMEY) (http://www.rand.org/nsrd/cmepp/imey/advisory.html#heggy). |
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Egypt Supreme Culture Council (Management Sciences Committee). |
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Tarek Heggy (born October 12, 1950, Port Said, Egypt) is a leading liberal political thinker in the Arab world. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress. As one of the preeminent intellectuals in the Arab world, Tarek Heggy has lectured at a number of leading universities including Oxford, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Princeton, Columbia, Maryland, and the University of California Berkeley. Due to his knowledge of the Middle East, he has also been called upon to speak at various institutions and think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Institute, the Nixon Center, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Carnegie Endowment ,the American Enterprise Institute, the RAND, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, the Council on Foreign Relations (NY),and the Center for National Security.
Tarek Heggy’s main themes are the need for economic, political, and cultural reform in Egypt. In his essay, “Why Do I Write?” he explains that his purpose is to encourage self-criticism, to defend the shared values of all civilization, to advocate freedom of belief and a culture of peace, to advance market economics, and to counter the “Goebbels-style propaganda machines operating in Egypt and the Arab world and their dangerous manipulation of public opinion.” (http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3459131.html)
Published Works
Since April 1978, Tarek Heggy has published fifteen books in Arabic. In addition to these, some three hundred essays in English, Arabic, French, Russian & Hebrew are posted on his website http://www.tarek-heggy.com/ Heggy's fifth book in English "Culture, Civilization & Humanity" was published in the UK and USA by Frank Cass in 2003.
Books in English:
On Management and Petroleum Industry. 1991
Egypt 's Contemporary Problems. 1992
Critique of Marxism. 1992
Egyptian Political Essays. 2000
Culture, Civilization & Humanity. 2003
Books in Arabic:
Marxist Ideas In Balance. 1978
Communism And Religion. 1980
My Experience With Marxism. 1983
What is to be done? 1986
The Four Idols. 1988
The Trinity of Destruction. 1990
Egypt between two Earthquakes. 1991
The Fateful Transformation. 1993
Reflections on Egypt 's Realities. 1995
Critique of the Arab Mind. 1998
Culture First and Foremost. 2000
The Values of Progress. 2001
On the Egyptian Mind. 2003
Margins on The Egyptian Mind. 2004
Modern Management in the contemporary Arab Societies. 2006
Books in French:
L'inéluctable Transformation. 1991</nowiki>
Professional Experience
· Founder and Chairman, Tana Petroleum Middle East Co., a UK-based oil production company with a business portfolio in the UK and Egypt (1998).
· Shell International Middle East Advisor (1996 - 1998).
· Chairman of Shell International Petroleum Companies (1988 - 1996).
· Chief Petroleum Agreements Negotiator (1979 - 1988).
· Member of the Board of Directors of numerous Oil producing companies (1988 - 2004).
· Assistant Professor at the Law schools of a number of Algerian and Moroccan universities (1971– 1979).
Affiliations
Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, Washington D.C.(USA).
Member of the Advisory Board of the RAND Organization "Centre for Middle East Public Policy" of the initiative for Middle Eastern Youth (IMEY) (http://www.rand.org/nsrd/cmepp/imey/advisory.html#heggy).
Egypt Supreme Culture Council (Management Sciences Committee).
The Egyptian Society for Historic Studies.
MSA University ( Cairo , Egypt ).
The Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences of Cairo University.
The Middle East Research Centre of Ain Shams University (Cairo)
The Arab Management Society.
Egypt Bar Association.
Egypt Writers Association.
Heliopolis Library Chairman.
What Others Say
"A courageous and distinctive voice from Egypt ."(Professor Bernard Lewis).
"Tarek Heggy's book is one of the most interesting and important works to come out of the Arab world in a long time". (Professor Barry Rubin).
"Tarek Heggy is one of the most creative and prolific writers in the Arab world. His writings probe the political and social limits and present a refreshing message of self-reliance that challenges the prevailing sense that regional ills are largely made abroad". (Professor Shibley Telhami, Head of Al-Sadat Chair, Maryland University , USA).
External Links
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