Professor Dr. EUCLID ASQUITH ROSE’s REVIEW OF GUYANA’S FORMER AMBASSADOR Dr. Shamir A. Ally TO KUWAIT, BOOK; and Dr. EUCLID A. ROSE, BOOK, “A Race to the Finish Line: The Election of Barack Hussein Obama II as the First Black President of the United States.”
REVIEW OF GUYANA’S FORMER AMBASSADOR TO KUWAIT
PROFESSOR Dr. SHAMIR ALLY’s BOOK “My Tenure as Guyana’s Ambassador in Kuwait with Lessons in Diplomacy: How We Improved the Image of Guyana in the Middle
East” is a REMARKABLE, CREDIBLE and EDUCATIONAL BOOK.
Comprised of 400 plus pages and seven chapters, the extraordinary lengthy text is a brilliant analysis Dr. Ally’s early life in Guyana, his education at home and abroad, and his four decades of work experience in the United States.
In the book, Ambassador Ally depicts Guyana’s early socio-political and cultural growth, as well as its economic development and its transition from colonialism to independence and to becoming the
first Cooperative Republic in the world. Dr. Ally’s outstanding work offers substantially new insights into international relations and foreign policy and diplomacy in the Middle East and the cultural and social divide between the West and the Middle Eastern nations.
The book provides a valuable and comprehensive description of the reality of the practice of Middle and East and Saharra politics which are vastly different from the parliamentary and republican systems known in the West. It also reveals Ambassador Ally’s passion and devotion and his gallant and tireless effort to improve Guyana’s image in the Middle East by placing it at the forefront of the region’s economic and political system.
However, it is worth mentioning that he could not have achieved such huge success without his spouse of more than two decades, Dr. Maryann Beebe Ally, whose pioneering efforts, and superb skills helped to build a genuine diplomatic and cultural relationship with the Gulf Nations of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman, among others. Dr. Ally posited that before his appointment as Guyana’s ambassador to Kuwait, Guyana was a relatively unknown country in the Middle East and had little or no relations with the Sahara states.
Beyond presenting an in-depth analysis of the role and importance of the Gulf States to the global economic and political systems, Professor Ally has painstaking and judiciously pointed out in the book that most Western governments did not know or even understood the Gulf oil nations or the politics of the ruling elites in the Middle East due to the cultural divide and religious difference but they have mistakenly thought that they knew the Middle East which is far from the truth.
The esteemed Professor provides a fascinating account of Middle East political, cultural, and Islamic history which is vastly different from those in the West.
Ambassador Ally’s epic work has afforded readers an understanding of the culture, customs, values, and doctrines of the Gulf Nations which for decades have been generally misunderstood by the Western World, including Guyana and the Caribbean. He contended that the governing elites in the Gulf States are generally interested in aligning their interests with the West, especially the United States.
Professor Ally’s groundbreaking book has been applauded by scholars and Middle East and Islamic Experts as a significantly necessary, timely and scholarly contribution for the Western nations to establish, economic, diplomatic, cultural, and social relationships with the Gulf States. Based on his experience and knowledge gained as Guyana’s Ambassador to Kuwait.
Dr. Ally emphasized that they should do so urgently in order to bridge the cultural divide and thus end decades of stereotypes. Not only did he advance Guyana’s interests in the Middle East, especially with Saudi Arabia and with the federation of the seven Emirates independent city-states of the United Arab Emirates, but he also fostered strong economic and social ties which Guyana continues to benefit from.
Ambassador Dr. Ally, tireless and valiant effort has given Guyana an identity in the Middle East which did not exist before he became Guyana’s Ambassador to Kuwait in March 2017. His Excellency who came to this position with a diverse range of experiences, spectacular work has created a brand-new pathway for other diplomats, be it ambassadors or foreign policy experts to follow.
The gist of Professor Ally’s work is to provide readers with incisive.
knowledge and a thorough and expansive understanding of the importance of fostering international relations and diplomacy. He outlined a series of guidelines, policy measures and recommendations aimed at strengthening economic and political cooperation and establish a genuine and lasting relationship between the West and the Middle Eastern states.
The former Ambassador has a “good feel” of the politics of the governing elites of the Middle East, their strength and weaknesses and what they believe and stood for. His glowing spirit and the sharp interests of the Middle East are embodied in the book. The solutions he offered can surely bring about imperishable cooperation between the two regions.
The book is an ambitious undertaking, contemporary, very informative and a pleasure to read. I am confident that it will provoke a global debate among scholars, diplomats and students of international relations and foreign policy and diplomacy. Ambassador Dr. Ally’s remarkable accomplishments should be cherished by all.
Photo: Professor Dr. Euclid Asquith Rose REVIEWER: AUTHOR:
KN. August 20, 2024. “ A first for Guyana Dr. Euclid A. Rose First Guyanese-Caribbean Scholar to write a Comprehensive Manuscript on American Presidency. “
Book overview: AMAZON
Occasionally, a great manuscript is written about someone great, and that great manuscript is A Race to the Finish Line, and that someone great is Barack Hussain Obama, the first African American to be elected president of the United States of America.
Rose’s work is a brilliant analysis of the struggles that Barack Obama overcame to reach the Oval Office and as the commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in the United States. The book is intellectually stimulating and insightful. It chronicles Obama’s life from birth and examines the forces that shaped his life and made him the forty-fourth president of the United States. It explains how Obama defeated three renowned, admired, and experienced politicians–former first lady and Senator Hillary Clinton, former prisoner of war and Senator John McCain, and former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney–to become president of the United States.
Rose’s work presents fresh insights into Obama’s life–from his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, to Seattle and then Jakarta, Indonesia. The book is a definitive account of Barack Obama’s formative years, which made him the man he became. After graduating from Punahou School, a private, elite all-white academy in Honolulu, the young Obama entered Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and after two years, he transferred to Columbia University, an Ivy League college in New York City, and to Harvard University Law School, where he was elected as the first African American president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review.
Dr. Rose’s penetrating and captivating work describes Barack Obama’s tumultuous upbringing as a young man of mixed race who was raised almost exclusively by his white grandparents, his marriage to Michelle Robinson in Chicago in 1992, and his work as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and serving as a US senator from 2004 to 2008 when he was elected President of the United States. The book reveals that Occidental College has had a profound impact on Obama’s life, because according to him, it was at Occidental College that he took life seriously and was awakened to the notion that he could make a difference in the world.
Rose’s epic work is a rich tapestry of a life little known or understood prior to his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, which instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight.
The book is a classic narrative drawn from hundreds of interviews, including several of President Obama’s advisers, friends, and classmates and a trove of articles, journals, and other documents. It tells the human story of a man–Barack Hussain Obama–who changed the course of history and the world in a way that no one else can and no one expected. As a result, he is considered one of the most significant figures of the twenty-first century.
It is a groundbreaking and multigenerational manuscript; a richly textured account of President Obama’s life from childhood to adulthood as he tried to make sense of his past, established his own identity as he prepared for his political future. It is a beautifully written and powerful book that captured Barack Obama’s time as a community organizer in one of Chicago City’s roughest neighborhoods as he grappled with the role that faith has in store for him.
It is a fascinating account about a young man born into uncommon family and perhaps unusual circumstances–son of a Black man from Kenya, Africa, and a white woman from the state of Kansas in the United States. It is a first-rate account of the human struggles of one of the most interesting and exciting presidents of our time, Barack Hussein Obama.
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Photo from Book. Barack Obama, Jr ( back row 2nd from left) with his AFRICAN Relatives in KENYA in 1988
DR. EUCLID A. ROSE PhD. AUTHOR
Far Rockaway, NY, October 25, 2024 –(PR.com)– Dr. Euclid A. Rose PhD, who was born in the village of Gibraltar, East Corentyne, Berbice, in the former colony of British Guiana, now the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, has completed his NEW BOOK “A Race to the Finish Line: The Election of Barack Hussein Obama II as the First Black President of the United States”: an intellectually stimulating and insightful work that chronicles Obama’s life from birth and examines the forces that shaped his life and made him the forty-fourth PRESIDENT of the United States.
At an early age, Dr. Euclid A. Rose PhD, migrated to Montreal, Canada, where he lived for almost three decades before migrating to Albany, New York, to lecture at the University at Albany and Siena College, a Catholic institution in Loudonville, New York. Professor Rose was also the director of the high school advanced placement (AP) program at Schenectady County Community College. It was a dual enrollment program that allowed students to study AP courses in high school and use those courses for college credits. He later moved to New York City to teach at the City University of New York. Dr. Rose was an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Among the books Dr. Rose has written are “Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean: Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada,” which was a bestseller, and “Canada’s Foreign Aid Program: A Policy Analysis.” He has also published several articles in journals, including the “Middle East Journal.” Rose’s academic interests include international political economy, international law, foreign policy and diplomacy, global politics, and American politics. Dr. Rose has recently completed a paper on “Ecotourism: Its Impact on Developed and Developing Economies.” He is currently working on a manuscript titled “The Rise of China: The Realignment of Power in the International System.”
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