Hussein Ibish
Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish | |
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Born | 1963 |
Nationality | United States |
Alma mater | UMass Amherst, Emerson College |
Occupation | Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Senior Resident Scholar at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington |
Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish (Arabic: حسين يوسف كمال أيبش; /ˈɪbɪʃ/ IB-ish;[1] born 1963) is a Senior Resident Scholar at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.[2] He was a Fellow at the former American Task Force on Palestine.[3] He has a Ph.D. in Comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst[4] and is active in advocacy for Arab causes in the United States. He is a weekly columnist for NOW Lebanon. He describes himself as an agnostic from the Muslim-American community.[5]
Background and education[]
Ibish was born in Beirut, Lebanon.[6] He comes from an academic background.[7] His father, Yusuf Ibish, studied at Harvard University's Department of Government in the 1950s and was on the faculty of the American University of Beirut as a scholar of Islam. His father and mother were devout Sunni Muslim and Anglican Christian, respectively, although he never embraced either religion.[8] Ibish attended Emerson College, earning a bachelor of science degree in mass communications in 1986. He has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[9]
Career[]
- Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 1998–2004[10][11]
- Founding member of the Progressive Muslim Union (later resigned)[12]
Publications[]
- What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal. American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), 2009[13]
- "Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans 1998-2000". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 2001)[14]
- "Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab-Americans Sept. 11, 2001-Oct. 11, 2002" (ADC, 2003)[14]
- "Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans: 2003-2007" (ADC, 2008)[14]
- "At the Constitution's Edge: Arab Americans and Civil Liberties in the United States" in States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons, Joy James, ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000[15]
- "Anti-Arab Bias in American Policy and Discourse" in Race in 21st Century America, Curtis Stokes, Theresa Melendez, Genice Rhodes-Reed, eds. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001[16]
- "Race and the War on Terror" in Race and Human Rights, Curtis Stokes, ed. Michigan State University Press, 2005[17]
- "Symptoms of Alienation: How Arab and American Media View Each Other" in Arab Media in the Information Age. ECSSR, 2005[18]
- "The Palestinian Right of Return" (ADC, 2001)[19][20]
- "The Media and the New Intifada" in The New Intifada, Roane Carey, ed. Verso, 2001[21]
- Editor, Principles and Pragmatism. ATFP, 2006[22]
References[]
- ^ "Ep.122 (Audio): Internal & External Pressure with Hussein Ibish". Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ^ "Hussein Ibish: Senior Resident Scholar". www.agsiw.org.
- ^ American Task Force on Palestine. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ Dissertation: Nationalism as an Ethical Problem for Postcolonial Theory. Chair: Dr. David Lenson.
- ^ Ibish, Hussein (September 21, 2009). "Why an agnostic and secularist fights for American Muslim rights and against Islamophobia". Ibishblog. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
...I am, and have ... been a committed agnostic...from the Muslim American community and part of the Muslim American community.
- ^ "What Trump's Win Looks Like to Someone Born in the Middle East". Slate. 11 November 2016.
- ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (13 April 2012). "Hussein Ibish Is Not a Zionist". The Atlantic.
- ^ HUSSEIN IBISH (15 Dec 2015). "Who Is a Muslim?". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Hussein Ibish Bashes Columnist Jeff Jacoby as He Searches for Missing Son". Algemeiner Journal.
- ^ ""All Things Considered" interview, November 26, 2002. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ Online discussion, April 9, 2003. Archived March 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ Progressive Muslim Union: Three founding members resign Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda?". The American Task Force on Palestine.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "A Bibliography of Anti-Arab Discrimination, Stereotyping, and Media Bias". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. 6 September 2002.
- ^ "Attacks on U.S. Soil". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Hussein Ibish C APatterns of Arab-American Activism" (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
- ^ "Hussein Ibish | The American Task Force on Palestine". www.americantaskforce.org.
- ^ "Hussein Ibish, Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine to speak, March 31". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 10 September 2013.
- ^ "What is the Palestinian Right of Return Anyway?". Jewish Voice for Peace. 3 September 2013.
- ^ "What is the Palestinian right of return, anyway?". Salon (website). 28 May 2011.
- ^ Carey, Roane (2001). The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid. p. 165. ISBN 9781859843772.
- ^ "Hussein Ibish: Senior Resident Scholar". Agsiw.org.
External links[]
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- IbishBlog official blog
- Profile at The American Task Force on Palestine
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Hussein Ibish at IMDb
- Works by or about Hussein Ibish in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Interview and articles
- Q&A - Hussein Ibish by Judith LeBlanc (Colorlines) - Archived copy
- Ibish Responds to Daniel Pipes in New York Post
- Ibish vs. Jerry Falwell on CNN's Crossfire
- Arab-Americans after 9/11: Hussein Ibish (USA Today)
- What went wrong in Arab world? America, ask yourself (LA Times)
- The Israel Shamir Case
- The Shoney's Incident: Determine the Truth Behind False Alarm
- CNN CROSSFIRE - Israel Retaliates to Suicide Bombing by Invading Arafat Compound
- Ibish/Herschensohn Debate at Nixon Library Challenges Outdated Israeli Myths
- Media watchdog Ibish visits UM-D to speak against Iraq war
- Target Terrorism: Forcing Suspects to Talk (CNN CROSSFIRE)
- Obama's second term: two views on the Peace Process - view two, Fathom: For a better understanding of Israel and the region, 30 January 2013
- 1963 births
- Living people
- American agnostics
- American writers of Lebanese descent
- American Muslims
- Emerson College alumni
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
- Writers from Beirut
- American male journalists