Teaching Ethnicity and Minorities in the Arab World
CCAS was honored to host two American Druze Foundation Research Fellows virtually during the 2020-2021 academic year. Hear from our fellows, Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish and Dr. Daniel Neep, about how the ADF fellowship at Georgetown is opening up new avenues for knowledge production about ethnicity and minorities in the Arab World. As scholars of Lebanon and Syria, they will share reflections from teaching issues of ethnic identity and minority groups at Georgetown over the past year while undertaking their ADF research projects.
Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish is an historian of the modern Middle East and North Africa. In addition to being an ADF Fellow, he is Co-Director of the MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. He is currently finalizing his first book manuscript, The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence (1943–1955). This year as an ADF fellow he taught the inaugural course on “Race and Ethnicity in the Modern MENA.” Read his full bio.
Dr. Daniel Neep is a political scientist who specializes in the politics of Syria. He was previously Assistant Professor at CCAS and has taught at the University of Exeter, School of Oriental & African Studies, London School of Economics, and Georgetown University – Qatar. Before joining Georgetown in 2013, he was based in Damascus as Research Director (Syria) at the Council for British Research in the Levant. This year as an ADF fellow he taught a course on “The Politics of Syria.” Read his full bio.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and the American Druze Foundation. Please note that this event will be recorded.