Dr. Andrea Rugh has been a technical adviser for U.S. Agency for International Development projects in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa and a research associate for the Harvard Institute of International Development, and has worked for Save the Children and UNICEF in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has written several books on Middle Eastern culture and society, including Family in Contemporary Egypt (Syracuse University Press, 1984), Within the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village (Columbia University Press, 1997), and The Political Culture of Leadership in the United Arab Emirates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Currently an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., she lives in Garrett Park, Maryland, and Woods Hole, Massachusetts.