Birth: 1/1/1963 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jordan in 1963 to a family original from Jaffa but displaced in 1948; obtained his BA and MA from the University of New Mexico and his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University; started teaching at Columbia in the Fall of 1999 and became Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University; was target of intimidation, harassment and a slanderous campaign launched by some Zionist students, a US Congressman and major Jewish organizations, incl. the American Defense League (ADL), accusing him of anti-Semitism and demanding his dismissal; the incident became a cause célèbre affecting the intellectual and academic freedom of Arabs in American academic organizations; serves as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Palestine Studies, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies; has written numerous articles and book reviews as well as several books, incl. Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (Columbia, 2001), The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (Routledge, forthcoming) and Desiring Arabs (Harvard, forthcoming).
