Hussein Ibish

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Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish
Born1963
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUMass Amherst, Emerson College
OccupationCommunications 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[]

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[]

  1. ^ "Ep.122 (Audio): Internal & External Pressure with Hussein Ibish". Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Hussein Ibish: Senior Resident Scholar". www.agsiw.org.
  3. ^ American Task Force on Palestine. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  4. ^ Dissertation: Nationalism as an Ethical Problem for Postcolonial Theory. Chair: Dr. David Lenson.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "What Trump's Win Looks Like to Someone Born in the Middle East". Slate. 11 November 2016.
  7. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (13 April 2012). "Hussein Ibish Is Not a Zionist". The Atlantic.
  8. ^ HUSSEIN IBISH (15 Dec 2015). "Who Is a Muslim?". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  9. ^ "Hussein Ibish Bashes Columnist Jeff Jacoby as He Searches for Missing Son". Algemeiner Journal.
  10. ^ ""All Things Considered" interview, November 26, 2002. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  11. ^ Online discussion, April 9, 2003. Archived March 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  12. ^ Progressive Muslim Union: Three founding members resign Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda?". The American Task Force on Palestine.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b c "A Bibliography of Anti-Arab Discrimination, Stereotyping, and Media Bias". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. 6 September 2002.
  15. ^ "Attacks on U.S. Soil". The Washington Post.
  16. ^ "Hussein Ibish C APatterns of Arab-American Activism" (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
  17. ^ "Hussein Ibish | The American Task Force on Palestine". www.americantaskforce.org.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ "What is the Palestinian Right of Return Anyway?". Jewish Voice for Peace. 3 September 2013.
  20. ^ "What is the Palestinian right of return, anyway?". Salon (website). 28 May 2011.
  21. ^ Carey, Roane (2001). The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid. p. 165. ISBN 9781859843772.
  22. ^ "Hussein Ibish: Senior Resident Scholar". Agsiw.org.

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