Edmund Ghareeb

Edmund Ghareeb is a Lebanese-American scholar at the American University in Washington and a professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He earned a BA from the American International College and an MA and a PhD from Georgetown University.
Ghareeb has presented work on the potential revolutionary and transformational roles to be played by New Media in the Arab world; in a paper delivered at the Aseelah Forum in Morocco, and in two articles on the subject published by the Middle East Journal and Bahithat in 2000. His most recent work is a co-authored report entitled "Iraqi Refugees: Their History, cultures and Background Experiences". His most recent book is The Historical Dictionary of Iraq. In 2005, Library Journal described the book as one of the best reference works published in the United States in 2004. A new edition of the Iraq Dictionary is close to completion. He has also authored Split Vision: Portrayal of Arabs in the American Media and is co-author of War in the Gulf, recently issued in paperback by Oxford University Press. Dr. Ghareeb has lectured widely in the US, the Arab World and Europe. He has recently lectured in Brazil, Hong Kong, and Portugal. He has written articles about the Kurds, the Druze and Libya for The Encyclopedia of World Politics and Religion, and was interviewed for documentaries including: Al-Jazeera’s documentary on Kurdish leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani, Lucasfilm's upcoming documentary on Gertrude Bell, for a documentary on the history of the Arab American immigration to the US for the Voice of America, and was interviewed for a documentary on Arab Americans in the US for Alhurra TV and has appeared on C-SPAN multiple times.

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Al-Watan al-Arabi fi al-Siyassah al-Amrikiyyah..
Thawrat al-Ma’lumat fi al-'Alam al- Alam al-Arabi..
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The Kurdish Nationalist Movement.
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Al-Harakah al-Qawmiyah al-Kurdiyyah..
Enemy of The Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance