of Science degree in mass communications in 1986. He has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Career Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 1998–2004 Founding member of the Progressive Muslim Union (later resigned) 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 "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 References External links IbishBlog official blog Profile at The American Task Force on Palestine 1963 births Living people American agnostics American writers of Lebanese descent American Muslims Emerson College alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Writers from Beirut American male journalists