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Edmund Ghareeb
Edmund Ghareeb is an internationally known academic and writer on Iraq, Kurds, media coverage, the information technology revolution in the Arab world, the Mahjar Press and US foreign policy. He has taught at Georgetown University, George Washington University, the University of Virginia, Pepperdine University and McGill University. He was the American University’s Center for Global Peace’s first Mustafa Barzani Distinguished Scholar in Kurdish Studies. He also served as coordinator for the Middle East Studies Programme at the AU’s School of International Service. He is the author and co-author of twelve books including: Al Harakah al Qawmiyyah al Kurdiyyah (‘The Kurdish nationalist movement’) (Dar Al Nahar, 1973); War in the Gulf (Oxford University Press, 2001); The Kurdish Question in Iraq (Syracuse University Press, 1981); Split Vision: The Portrayal of Arabs in the American Media (American-Arab Affairs Council, 1983) and The Historical Dictionary of Iraq (Scarecrow Press, 2000). He is also the author of numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, book chapters, newspaper and magazine and reviews. He also served on MA and Ph.D. dissertation committees in the United States, United Kingdom and the Middle East. Some of his books have been translated to Arabic, Kurdish and German. He has written and lectured widely (in the US, Europe and the Arab world, Brazil and China) on Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Arab–Israeli conflict, the Kurds, the Gulf region, US–Arab relations, US media coverage of the Middle East and the Information Revolution in the Arab World and on ethnic and religious identity issues in the Middle East. He served as reviewer for the UNDP and participated in conferences sponsored jointly by the UN and the Foreign Ministries of Brazil and Portugal and the Kreiski Institute in Vienna. He has lectured at numerous American, European, Arab and Asian universities and think tanks and testified before the US congress. He is interviewed by numerous Middle Eastern, North African, European Asian and North American TVs, radio stations and newspapers.