Nabeel Abraham teaches anthropology and directs the Honors Program at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan. He is the co-editor, with Andrew Shryock, of a forth-coming work entitled From Margin to Mainstream: Arab Detroit Comes of Age. He has co-edited, with Sameer Abraham, two other works including a standard on Arab Americans, Arabs in the New World. He has also authored a number of other works on Arab Americans, including a number of encyclopedia entries. For many years, he lectured and wrote about Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict, human rights, and media coverage of the Arab world for numerous publications, including Lies of Our Times, Merip, Middle East International, and the Detroit Free Press.
Kristine Ajroush, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan where she is working on issues of aging. Her research interests include intergenerational relationships between the elderly and their adult children as well as the process of ethnic identity formation among second generation Arab American adolescents.
Lina Beydoun is a graduate student at Wayne State University. She is working on her doctorate in Sociology and International Law. Her dissertation involves the study of postwar neighborhood re-organization in Beirut. She is also interested in researching ethnic boundaries and frontiers as well as the sexuality and identity of Arab American women.
Fadwa El Guindi, Ph.D., is Adjunct Full Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Southern California. Her field research areas
include Arab, Nubian, and Zapotec cultures, and Arab-Americans.
She recently ended a
4-year term as an Editor at American Anthropologist (the flagship
Journal of the American Anthropological Association). She is Past
President of the Society for Visual Anthropology, member of the
Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, and
has just been elected President of the newly formed Middle East
Section of the American Anthropological Association. Among her
print publications, those on gender and the
Islamic movement have become repeatedly cited classics. El Guindi
is currently engaged in a ten-year ethnographic study and visual
research among Arab-Americans, particularly in Los Angeles. This
includes
experimentation with ethno-theater in the representation of ethnic
cultural identity. This led to the founding in 1992 of a nonprofit
art organization for Arab-Americans -- Al-Funun Al-Arabiya --
which includes a
theater ensemble, Masrah Al-Funun Al-Arabiya.
Sam Husseini is Communications Director for the Institute for
Public Accuracy (http://www.accuracy.org), a consortium of policy
experts. Prior to joining IPA, he was with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (http://www.adc.org). He was with Fairness & Accuracy
In Reporting (http://www.fair.org) for several years before that.
He has been published in the Washington Post, Newsday, Al Jadid
Magazine,
The Nation and numerous other outlets on politics, media, the
Mideast and pop culture.
Hussein Ibish is Media Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC). He is also a freelance journalist who has written
extensively on Middle East affairs for journals such as the Hartford
Courant. He is also a regular commentator on Middle East affairs
and international relations for WBAI, FM 99.5 in New York City
and for Pacific Radio Network, and has made numerous other radio
and television
appearances. Mr. Ibish was producer and host of RVoices of the
Third WorldS on WMUA, FM 91.1 in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1993-98.
He was editor of The Voice newspaper for two years. Mr. Ibish
is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Rashid Khalidi is Professor of Middle East History and Director
of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago,
where he has taught since 1987. Previously, he taught at the Lebanese
University
and the American University of Beirut from 1974 to 1983, and at
Georgetown and Columbia universities from 1983 until 1987. He
received a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1970 and a
D. Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1974.
Khalidi is past President of the Middle East Studies Association,
is the President of the American Committee on Jerusalem, and was
an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington
Arab-Israeli peace
negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He has received
fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center
in Egypt,
and the Rockefeller Foundation, and was recipient of a Fulbright
research award. Rashid Khalidi's most recent book is Palestinian
Identity: The Construction of National Consciousness, published
by Columbia University
Press, which won the Middle East Studies Association's Albert
Hourani Prize as the best book of 1997. Additionally, he is the
author of British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914
(1980); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986),
and was the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The
Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991). He has written seventy scholarly
articles on aspects of Middle East
history and politics, as well as op-ed pieces in The New York
Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune
and The Nation. Dr. Khalidi has been a guest on numerous radio
and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation,
Morning Edition, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Nightline,
and on the BBC, the CBC and the Voice of America.
Nabil Khoury is currently Division Head of Emergency Medicine
at Henry Ford Medical Center-West Bloomfield. He is the Medical
Director of the of the Clinical Decision Unit there and is a Clinical
Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine. He has been involved in a number of Arab-American
organizations since his youth. He has been a member of the AAUG
since 1980 and participated in several Middle East youth trips
including one to Palestine and Jordan sponsored by the AAUG in
1983. During his university studies he interned both at the Detroit
office of the American-Arab anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
and in the US Congress. He has also volunteered to provide medical
supplies to victims of the Middle Eastern conflicts through the
United Holy Land Fund and World Medical Relief. He is also an
active member of the National Arab-American Medical Association.
He is currently the President of the Association of Arab-American
University Graduates (AAUG).
