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Here is the bio I have of her:-

-Deputy assistant secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, 2002-2003

-Attorney, White and Case, LLP, 1996-1999

-Director of vice-presidential debate preparation, Bush-Cheney Campaign, 2000

-Attorney (Middle East and Central Asia), International Finance Corporation, World Bank, 1999-2002

- Special assistant to the deputy secretary of state (U.S. assistance projects in the former Soviet Union and China), 1992-1993

-Interim representative in Poland; desk officer for China; project development officer in Hungary; U.S. Agency for International Development, 1989-1992

-Consultant (Kenya and Uganda election), International Republican Institute, 1993

Education
J.D., University of Chicago
B.A., Colorado College

There is an interesting fact she got her BA at the same college and her mother got her BA and MA.

This bio does not say what her areas of responsibility were but it is an interesting fact as you say why does America send women to Arab countries. Maybe it is a deliberate policy.

Having said that I deal with Arab countries at work and also Muslim countries such as Iran and the only country I would say I feel a problem with being a women is Egypt and that is strange because 2 of the companies I deal with my contact is a woman but I feel if I were a man I would probably get on better with them.

Strangely enough the country I probably get treated the best is Iran who one thinks of as being the most fundamentalist and anti women's right but they are always most courteous to me. I take the view with all people that one should not judge what is fed you but what you actually experience yourself.

She's got an impressive resume. I have always believed she is well qualified for the positions she has held.
I've read lots of books of women who live in the middle east and American women married to Arab men who lived there. Whether middle class, poor, or wealthy and upper class, none were well treated. State department officers would not help these women either.
Everything is consistent in every book I've read.
The best evidence is what you see with your own eyes, but you can also believe eyewitness testimony. They use it in court, it is in the Bible to prove the divinity of Christ.
The Arab street was not kind to the US after September 11th.
Diogenesis has posted many pictures of Arab countries, both positive and negative.
No country is 100 percent, but the bad treatment of women is predominant.

I think there must have been some intelligent thought behind placing Liz in a responsible position and sending Laura over there to the Near/Middle East.
Things are better or they would not have sent the First Lady there.

I'm wondering what the intelligent thought planned to accomplish. Wonder if there is some humble pie here. And Condi as Secretary of State and the Arab men have to deal with her.

Regardless, it is a big change from what was ten years ago to now. It is a startling change. And I don't think they are quite finished with the change.

Thanks for the resume. The part where I thought she was giving out assistance was the special assistant to the deputy secretary of state for US assistance projects in the former Soviet Union and China, in 1992-1993. I thought that was for middle eastern countries so I must be mistaken.