Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Ziad Abu-Rish is Co-Director of the MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts, and Visiting Associate Professor of Human Rights, at Bard College. He is a 2020–21 American Druze Foundation Fellow in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. His research explores state formation, economic development, and popular mobilizations in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Lebanon and Jordan. Abu-Rish was previously Assistant Professor of History and Founding Director of the Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate Program at Ohio University. He serves as Co-Editor of Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya, as well as Co-Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) and the Lebanese Dissertation Summer Institute. He is also a Research Fellow at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Political Economy
Identity/Representation
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Mashreq
Lebanon
Specialties
State Building
Economic Development
Social Mobilization
Languages
Arabic (native)
Ottoman (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| History
| UCLA
MA
| 2009
| History
| UCLA
MA
| 2005
| Arab Studies
| Georgetown U
BA
| 2001
| History
| Whitman Col
Abstracts
Beyond the Imperial Mantle: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Middle East, and Developmentalism
Institution Building, Social Conflict, and State Formation in Lebanon: 1943-1975
Economic Regimes, Social Conflict, and State Formation in Lebanon: 1943-1958
Public Utilities, Foreign Concessions, and the Political Economy of Early Independence Lebanon
Beyond the Non-State: Bureaucratic Expansion and Political Mobilizations in Early Independence Lebanon
Development from Below? Competing Visions of Early Independence Lebanon
Getting the Vote: Suffrage and the Women’s Movement in Post-Independence Lebanon
