Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish
Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, published a co-edited volume titled Critical Voices: A Collection of Interviews from and on the Middle East (Tadween Publishing)
Comprised of 27 interviews with leading researches, intellectuals, artists, and activists, Critical Voices explores the ways in which power and popular mobilizations manifest in the contemporary region, as well as the representation of key dynamics, experiences, and figures.
Through their own unique perspectives and possibilities, the interviewees and interviewers challenge the ways in which the region is studied, discussed, and represented. Abu-Rish’s co-author is Bassam Haddad, Director of the Middle East Studies program at George Mason University.
The book comes in the wake of an active publication year for Abu-Rish. In 2015, he also wrote an article on “Manufacturing Silence: On Jordan’s ISIS War, Arab Authoritarianism, and US Empire” in Jadaliyya e-zine.
He also presented papers on “Institution Building and Political Organization in Early Independence Lebanon,” at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut, and on “Regime-Society Relations in Jordan Four Years after 2011,” at the the Asfari Institute’s First Annual Conference: Exploring an Agenda for Active Citizenship. During the summer of 2015, Abu-Rish co-convened, organized and participated in a research workshop on “State Formation, Public Institutions, and Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958,” held at the American University of Beirut and funded by the Carnegie Foundation via the Arab Studies Institute and George Mason University. Also during 2015, Abu-Rish gave public talks on the Islamic State at Haverford College, contemporary Syria at Trinity College, and the garbage crisis in Lebanon at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was also twice interviewed by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS), based in Beirut, on the history of state institutions in Lebanon during the early independence period. The interviews (Abu-Rish Shows Different Side to History of Newly Independent Lebanon and Abu-Rish Says Questions about State Institutions and Electricity Sector in Lebanon Go Back a Long Ways) were published in both English and Arabic.
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