Hussein Ibish

Hussein Yusuf Kamal Ibish is a Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He was a Fellow at the former American Task Force on Palestine. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1963. 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. He is a weekly columnist for NOW Lebanon. He describes himself as an agnostic from the Muslim-American community.

Ibish comes from an academic background. His father, Yusuf Ibish, studied at Harvard University's Department of Government in the 1950s and was on the faculty of the American University of Beirut as a scholar of Islam. Hussein Ibish attended Emerson College, earning a bachelor of science degree in mass communications in 1986. He has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Ibish started a blog in 2009.

Ibish has won three awards. In 2002, he received the "Arab-American of the Year" award from the Arab-American Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Ohio (AACCESS, Ohio). A year later, he was named "Best TV Spokesperson for the Arab Cause" by the New York Press. In 2004, Ibish received the Dedicated Service Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Ibish's op-ed columns have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Arab American News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Newsday, Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader, San Diego Union-Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Dallas Morning News, The Record, Sunday Gazette-Mail, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle and The Nation.

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