This article from National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ Malone Fellow and Model Arab League faculty advisor Dr. Joe P. Dunn highlights the Council’s Model Arab League Student Leadership Development Program. Originally published in the Journal of Political Science, Vol. 30 (2002), pages 121-129, it is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and publication.

Dr. Joe P. Dunn is the Charles A. Dana professor of history & politics, department chair (for 25 years), and director of summer programs at Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, where he is in his 37th year. Before Converse, he taught for three years as a graduate student at the University of Missouri and three years with the University of Maryland—European Division, serving in Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Germany. He received a B.S. degree in history from Southeast Missouri State University (1967), an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) in history from the University of Missouri, and he completed post-doctorate work in political science at Duke University (1981).

He has published five books, Teaching the Vietnam War: Resources and Assessments (1990), The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-First Century (1991), Desk Warrior: Memoirs of a Combat REMF (1999), Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective on the Twentieth Century (2003), and A Good and Ordinary Life (2012).