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 Ara...