On Thursday, December 6, Smith will host “Upheaval in the Middle East: A Conversation with Hussein Ibish” in the Neilson Browsing Room at 4 p.m.
Hussein Ibish, a Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is active in advocacy for Arab causes in the United States. Since the beginning of the so-called “Arab Spring”, Ibish has been writing and commenting on events in the Middle East and the ethical issues of nationalism.
The talk is being sponsored by the Department of Government and the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
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