Hussein Ibish

Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish (Arabic: حسين يوسف كمال أيبش) (/aɪbɪʃ/) (born 1963) is a Senior Resident Scholar at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.[1] He was a Fellow at the former American Task Force on Palestine.[2] He has a Ph.D. in Comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst[3] 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.[4]

Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish
Born1963
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityUnited States
Alma materHarvard University, Emerson College
OccupationCommunications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Senior Resident Scholar at The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

Background and education

Ibish was born in Beirut, Lebanon.[5] He comes from an academic background.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]

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[12]
  • "Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans 1998-2000". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 2001)[13]
  • "Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab-Americans Sept. 11, 2001-Oct. 11, 2002" (ADC, 2003)[13]
  • "Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans: 2003-2007" (ADC, 2008)[13]
  • "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[14]
  • "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[15]
  • "Race and the War on Terror" in Race and Human Rights, Curtis Stokes, ed. Michigan State University Press, 2005[16]
  • "Symptoms of Alienation: How Arab and American Media View Each Other" in Arab Media in the Information Age. ECSSR, 2005[17]
  • "The Palestinian Right of Return" (ADC, 2001)[18][19]
  • "The Media and the New Intifada" in The New Intifada, Roane Carey, ed. Verso, 2001[20]
  • Editor, Principles and Pragmatism. ATFP, 2006[21]
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References
  1. "Hussein Ibish: Senior Resident Scholar". www.agsiw.org.
  2. American Task Force on Palestine. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  3. Dissertation: Nationalism as an Ethical Problem for Postcolonial Theory. Chair: Dr. David Lenson.
  4. 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.
  5. "What Trump's Win Looks Like to Someone Born in the Middle East". Slate. 11 November 2016.
  6. Goldberg, Jeffrey (13 April 2012). "Hussein Ibish Is Not a Zionist". The Atlantic.
  7. HUSSEIN IBISH (15 Dec 2015). "Who Is a Muslim?". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  8. "Hussein Ibish Bashes Columnist Jeff Jacoby as He Searches for Missing Son". Algemeiner Journal.
  9. ""All Things Considered" interview, November 26, 2002. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  10. Online discussion, April 9, 2003. Archived March 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  11. Progressive Muslim Union: Three founding members resign Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ""What's Wrong with the One-State Agenda?"". The American Task Force on Palestine.
  13. "A Bibliography of Anti-Arab Discrimination, Stereotyping, and Media Bias". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. 6 September 2002.
  14. "Attacks on U.S. Soil". The Washington Post.
  15. "Hussein Ibish C APatterns of Arab-American Activism" (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
  16. "Hussein Ibish | The American Task Force on Palestine". www.americantaskforce.org.
  17. "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.
  18. "What is the Palestinian Right of Return Anyway?". Jewish Voice for Peace. 3 September 2013.
  19. "What is the Palestinian right of return, anyway?". Salon (website). 28 May 2011.
  20. "The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid". p. 165.
  21. "Hussein Ibish: Senior Resident Scholar". Agsiw.org.
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