As'ad AbuKhalil

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As'ad AbuKhalil

As'ad AbuKhalil
Born As'ad AbuKhalil
March 16, 1960 (1960-03-16) (age 48)
Tyre, Lebanon
Residence Modesto, California
Nationality Lebanese Flag of Lebanon
Other names "Angry Arab"
Occupation professor of political science
Employers California State University, Stanislaus
Website
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/

As'ad AbuKhalil Arabic: أسعد أبو خليل (born March 16, 1960) is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley.

AbuKhalil is the author of Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam & America's New "War on Terrorism" (2002), and The Battle for Saudi Arabia (2004). He maintains a popular blog, The Angry Arab News Service. He is an occasional commentator on Middle East issues for television in the United States and a frequent commentator for Al-Jazeera.

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[edit] Biography

AbuKhalil was born in Tyre, Lebanon, and grew up in Beirut. He received his B.A. and M.A. in political science from the American University of Beirut, and a Ph.D. in comparative government from Georgetown University. He has been married and divorced twice, both times to American citizens.[1]

AbuKhalil is a tenured professor at Cal State Stanislaus and a visiting professor at UC Berkeley.[1] In addition, he has taught at Tufts University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Colorado College, California State University Stanislaus, and Randolph-Macon Woman's College.[2]

[edit] Political views

AbuKhalil describes himself as "a former Marxist-Leninist, now an anarchist",[3] a feminist, and an "atheist secularist".[4]

AbuKhalil is vocally pro-Palestinian, describes himself as an anti-Zionist, and supports one secular state in Palestine[5]. He is an opponent of the Iraq War. He is critical of Israel, of the United States, of Saudi Arabia, of both Fatah and Hamas in Palestine, and of both Hezbollah and the supporters of Rafiq Hariri in Lebanon.[3]

[edit] The Angry Arab News Service

AbuKhalil's blog, the Angry Arab News Service, was launched in September 2003, and as of June 2005 received between 30,000 and 35,000 hits per month. The name of the blog is taken from a phrase used by a TV producer to describe AbuKhalil's perspective.[1]

According to the Los Angeles Times, the blog is "known for its sarcastic but knowledgeable commentary", and "stands out for its sense of humor in the dour left-wing landscape."[1] Ken Silverstein writes that the blog often becomes "a furious stream of consciousness that lacks paragraph breaks or other typographic niceties" (though AbuKhalil is nevertheless "a terrific writer and an insightful political analyst").[3]

[edit] Relation to the media

AbuKhalil is a sometime TV commentator, but is also a critic of the US media, which he believes displays "more than a tinge of racism" towards Arabs.[3] He has appeared on PBS' NewsHour and on CNN, and has been a Middle East consultant for NBC and ABC - experiences which, according to the Los Angeles Times, "served only to increase his disdain for the mainstream American media".[1]

[edit] Books

  • Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), ISBN 978-0-8108-3395-1
  • Bin Laden, Islam & America's New "War on Terrorism" (2002), ISBN 978-1-58322-492-2
  • The Battle For Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power (2004), ISBN 978-1-58322-610

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Between disparate worlds [on California State University professor As'ad AbuKhalil} - Campus Watch
  2. ^ http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
  3. ^ a b c d “A Statue to Reason”, By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
  4. ^ The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
  5. ^ Can somebody tell Wikipedia that they are wrong

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