Bio of Louis Cantori
Dr. Louis J. Cantori (lcantori@islam-democracy.org) has his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in political science. He studied Islamic philosophy for one year in the Faculty of Theology, al-Azhar University.
He is the author or editor of four books, including Local Politics and Development in the Middle East. He is the author of over forty articles , including "Modernization and Development " in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World and "Civil Society,Liberalism and the Corporatist Alternative in the Middle East," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (1997) . He is presently co-editing for publication, Muslim Thought in the 20th Century .
He has been president of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies. He has held distinguished professorships at the US Military Academy,West Point, the US Air Force Academy and the US Marine Corps University.
He is Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the US Department of State . He is Adjunct Professor, US Marine Command and Staff College and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University and Professor of Political Science , University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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