Autor: Jamil Effarah

Dr. Jamil Effarah has been a resident of Ventura County, California, since 1978. He is an Arab American from Lebanon, born in Haifa, Palestine. He is married to his cousin Mathilda Effarah and has two sons and six grandchildren. He obtained a BA degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB), a MEd from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (LSU), an MS degree in computer science from University of Southern Louisiana in Lafayette (ULL), an MBA from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks (CLU), and a Ph D from University of Oregon in Eugene (U of O). He published his first book in Arabic in 1958, The Political Problems of the Sudan, and an updated second edition in 2000. He established, owned, and directed Kfarshima College in Kfarshima, Lebanon, in 1962. His dissertation “The Impact of Electronic Data Processing on Business Education in the Secondary Schools of Oregon, ” is classified at the foundation level of the Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University (NDSU) and is being taught as part of the Mathematics Subject Classification: 97—Mathematics Education at the University of North Dakota in Fargo. Dr. Borg and Dr. Gall quoted Dr. Effarah and added another chapter, “Evaluation Research, ” in the third edition of their book Educational Research, 1979. Dr. Effarah has originated a baseline to measure the unmet needs. He has published over one thousand articles in Arabic and English in different newspapers and magazines in United States and in the Middle East. He published a number of books in English online through the Author House www.Author House.com. and a number of other published books in English and in Arabic, and more written books are still waiting to be published.