Dr. John Duke Anthony (Escort)
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Released 21 March 2004
John Duke Anthony
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Dr. Anthony is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and is a founder, board member, and Secretary of the U.S. - GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee.
He is also the founding President of the Middle East Educational Trust; a founder of the Commission on Israeli-Palestinian Peace; the founding President of the Society for Gulf Arab Studies; a founder and board member of the National Commission to Commemorate the 14th Centennial of Islam; founder of the annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference; a board member of the Center for Saudi Studies, Inc.; Vice-President of the Council for American-Saudi Dialogue. He is also the Publisher of Saudi-American Forum.
For the past 25 years, Dr. Anthony has been a consultant and regular lecturer on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf for the Departments of Defense and State. For nearly a decade, he taught courses on the Middle East at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He has also been a Visiting and Adjunct Professor at the Defense Intelligence College, the Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management, the Woodrow Wilson School of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, the Universities of Pennsylvania and Texas, and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
In 1983, Dr. Anthony received the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Department of Defense’s Institute for Security Assistance Management, one of two granted to Middle East specialists in the Institute’s history.
In 1993, he received the Department of State’s Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Award, one of three awarded over a span of 25 years in recognition of his preparation of American diplomatic and defense personnel assigned to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf states.
In 1994, he received the Stevens Award for Outstanding Contributions to American-Arab Understanding.
On June 21, 2000, H.M. King Muhammad VI of Morocco, on the occasion of his official visit to the United States, personally knighted Dr. Anthony, bestowing upon him the medal of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, the nation of Morocco’s highest award for excellence.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Anthony is a frequent participant in its study groups on issues relating to the Gulf region and the broader Islamic world. He is the only American to have served as an international observer in each of the parliamentary elections in Yemen and the only non-Arab to have been invited to each of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s Heads of State Summits since the GCC’s inception in 1981. (The GCC is comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.)
Dr. Anthony is the author of four books and more than 150 articles and monographs dealing with America’s interests and involvement in the Arab countries, the Middle East, and the Islamic world. His best-known work is Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum. His most recent book, The United Arab Emirates: Dynamics of State Formation, was published in 2002 by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
Dr. Anthony holds a BA in History from the Virginia Military Institute and an MS in Foreign Service (With Distinction) from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he was a University Scholar. He also holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Middle East Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Anthony is married to the former Cynthia Burns McDonald, the Director of the Washington Office of the American University in Cairo. He is the father of twin sons, James Coleman Anthony II and John Burroughs Anthony.