{"id":7477,"date":"2019-04-30T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7477"},"modified":"2024-11-20T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:40:23","slug":"betty-anderson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/betty-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Betty Anderson is<span> an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and a\u00a0<\/span>Professor of Middle East History at Boston University. She is the author of &#8216;Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State&#8217; (University of Texas Press, 2005), &#8216;The American University of Beirut: \u00a0Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education&#8217; (University of Texas Press, 2011) and &#8216;A History of the Modern Middle East&#8217; (Stanford University Press, 2016). She\u00a0 <span>has published articles in\u00a0<\/span><i>Civil Wars, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Critique<\/i><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i>Jordanies<\/i><span>, as well as chapters for a number of edited volumes. She has written about the themes covered by Islamic and history textbooks used in Jordan, the politicizing role of education in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century Middle East history and the evolution of the American liberal education system at the American University of Beirut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14139,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27002,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7477\/revisions\/27002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}