User:Rhinocerous Ranger/Margaret Scobey

Margaret Scobey, the current United States Ambassador to Egypt, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She got her B.A. and M.A. of History from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She received a doctorate in History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Ms. Scobey served as a member of the embassies to many Middle and Near Eastern countries before receiving her first appointment as ambassador to Syria in 2003. She was recalled in 2005 after the assassination of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. In February of 2008 she was nominated and confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to Egypt.