A Diplomat Arrives In Washington

About the Book

A Diplomat Arrives in Washington is an account of the insights to institutions, the people, their work culture and the realities of life of the American people seen through the eyes of a Malaysian diplomat. The book reveals the anxieties and apprehensions of an official as well as an individual who carries the responsibilities of conducting the finer details of diplomacy from her homeland embassy in the United States.

About the Author

Fauziah Mohamad Taib, Ph.D joined the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service in 1983. Born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, she studied international relations at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, l’Institut International Administrative Publique in Paris, l’Université de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and the University of Kent at Canterbury. Dr. Fauziah, the youngest in a family of nine was attached to the Prime Minister’s Department upon graduation in 1978 where she was entrusted to be the Secretary of the National Women’s Council – a group of prominent Malaysian women whose task it was to look out the interest women through recommendations to the government. At Wisma Putra, the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she spent several years in the European Affairs Division, the Multilateral Economic Division and served the Special Envoy of the Prime Minister on Sudan. Dr. Fauziah has had two assignments abroad -- in Brussels and in Washington, D.C. A Diplomat Arrives in Washington is her third published work.