Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish

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Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish (* 1963 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a researcher at the American Task Force on Palestine. In comparative literature PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst . He is an ardent defender of the Arab cause in the United States.

Environment and studies

Hussein Ibish comes from an academic family. His father, Yusuf Ibish, studied at the University Department of Government Administration, as he did at Harvard in the 1950s, and taught Islamic Science at the American University in Beirut. Hussein graduated from Emerson College with a degree in general communications in 1986.

Professional career

• Researchers at the American Task Force on Palestine
• Head of communications at the Arab-American Committee against Discrimination from 1998 to 2004
• Correspondent for the Lebanese Daily Star in Washington
• Teaching assistant in the African-American Teaching Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from September 1996 to December 1997.
• The Voice Editor, Spring and Fall 1993, Spring 1995 and 1997.
• Awardee and participant in the bilingual programs at Massachusetts Amherst, September 1992 to May 1993.
• Co-founder of the Union progressiste musulmane (from which he will later leave).
• In 2009 he opened an internet blog.

Awards

In 2002 Hussein Ibish received the annual award from the center of the Arab-American Association in Ohio for his services in the economic and social field. A year later, the New York press named him the best representative of the Arab cause. In 2004 Ibish received an award for his work from the Arab-American Committee against Discrimination.

speaker

Hussein Ibish has received numerous invitations from many prestigious universities in the US and elsewhere to give lectures, lead debates, etc. He made two speeches in 2002 and 2004 at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Prosecutors and in 2004 at Woodrow International Research Center. He was interviewed by Charlie Rose at the 3rd Flux and Reflux Summit. He was also a guest at the conference between the United States and the Islamic world organized by the Brookings Institute and the Qatari State Department in Doha in 2004. Some of his lectures have been given at C-Spam Sender (including the "International Conference of the Press Club" and "The State of Arabo-American After 2011").