Hussein Ibish - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish is a Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine

American Task Force on Palestine

The American Task Force on Palestine is an organization founded in 2003 to advocate that it is in the American national interest to promote an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the creation of a Palestinian state that will live alongside Israel in peace and security...

. He was born in Beirut

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, Lebanon

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in 1963. He has a Ph.D.

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in Comparative literature

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from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is active in advocacy for Arab causes in the United States

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. He describes himself as an agnostic from the Muslim-American community.

Background and education

Ibish comes from an academic background. His father, Yusuf Ibish, studied at Harvard University's

Harvard University

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Department of Government in the 1950s and was on the faculty of the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

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as a scholar of Islam

Islam

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. Hussein Ibish attended Emerson College

Emerson College

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, earning a bachelor of science degree in mass communications in 1986.

Career

Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine
Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership
Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee states that it is the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States. According to its web page it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has over 40 chapters in 24 states and members in all...

(ADC), 1998–2004
Vice-President of the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom, 2001-2004
Washington Correspondent, Daily Star
Daily Star (Lebanon)
The Daily Star is a pan-Middle East English language newspaper edited in Beirut. It was founded in 1952 by Kamel Mrowa, the publisher of the Arabic daily Al-Hayat to serve the growing number of expatriates brought by the oil industry...

, Beirut
Teaching Assistant, African-American Studies Dept., UMass, Amherst. Afro-Am 236: History of the Civil Rights Movement, September 1996 - December 1997
Editor, The Voice, Fall 1993 - Spring 1995; Spring 1997
Graduate Intern, Bilingual Collegiate Program, UMass, Amherst, September 1992 - May 1993
Founding member of the Progressive Muslim Union
Progressive Muslim Union
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(later resigned)

Ibish started a blog

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in 2009.

Awards

Ibish has won three awards. In 2002, he received the "Arab-American of the Year" award from the Arab-American Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Ohio (AACCESS, Ohio). A year later, he was named "Best TV Spokesperson for the Arab Cause" by the New York Press. In 2004, Ibish received the Dedicated Service Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

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 for Palestine (ATFP), 2009
"Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans 1998-2000". American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 2001)
"Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab-Americans Sept. 11, 2001-Oct. 11, 2002" (ADC, 2003)
"Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab Americans: 2003-2007" (ADC, 2008)
"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
"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
"Race and the War on Terror" in Race and Human Rights, Curtis Stokes, ed. Michigan State University Press, 2005
"Symptoms of Alienation: How Arab and American Media View Each Other" in Arab Media in the Information Age. ECSSR, 2005
"The Palestinian Right of Return" (ADC, 2001)
"The Media and the New Intifada" in The New Intifada, Roane Carey, ed. Verso, 2001
Editor, Principles and Pragmatism. ATFP, 2006

Ibish's op-ed columns have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Arab American News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Newsday, Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader, San Diego Union-Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Dallas Morning News, The Record, Sunday Gazette-Mail, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle and The Nation.

As a speaker

Ibish has accepted a number of invitations for talks, lectures and debates at colleges and universities, including Yale Law School

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, Harvard Business School

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, Princeton

Princeton University

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, MIT, Tufts University

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, Georgetown University

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, University of Michigan

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(Ann Arbor), The New School

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(formerly the New School for Social Research), North Carolina State University

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, University of California, Irvine

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and the University of Costa Rica

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.

Keynote presentations about race in 21st-century America were delivered at the third National Conference, Michigan State University

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(East Lansing – 2003) and the National Convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (2003). He also addressed the seventh annual National Latina/o Law Student Conference (Nuestro Deber: Our Duty to Empower Our Communities – 2003), and numerous Arab-American student conferences.

Ibish twice addressed the National Association of Attorneys General Annual Spring Meeting (in 2002 and 2004). In addition, he addressed the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Nixon Library and the Unity National Journalists of Color Conference (2004).

Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose

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interviewed him on stage at the Rising Tide Summit III (2000). Ibish was invited to participate in the first US-Islamic World Conference hosted by the Brookings Institute and the Qatari Foreign Ministry in Doha, Qatar (2004).

He was a panelist at the Nation Institute forum, Patriot Games: Civil Liberties After September 11 (moderated by Phil Donahue

Phil Donahue

Phillip John "Phil" Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first to use a talk show format. The show had a 26-year run on U.S...

); panelists also included Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Molly Ivins

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, Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen was president of the American Civil Liberties Union from February 1991 to October 2008. She was the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the ACLU. A professor at New York Law School, Professor Strossen sits on the Council on Foreign Relations...

and Elaine Jones

Elaine Jones

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Ibish's presentations have been broadcast on C-Span television (including a National Press Club Newsmaker Press Conference, The Condition of Arab-Americans Post-September 11 on November 20, 2001); Newsmaker press conferences are by invitation of the Press Club itself.

External links

IbishBlog official blog
Profile at the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership
Profile at The American Task Force on Palestine

Interview and articles

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