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Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar holds a Ph.D. (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC]) from the University of Alberta, where he was awarded the Bacchus Graduate Research Prize for scholarly excellence in international and multicultural education. He was also awarded the University of Alberta President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction. Abdul-Jabbar held a postdoctoral fellowship (also funded by the SSHRC) at the University of Calgary. His research considers the convergences of seemingly differing cultures or philosophical traditions with the aim of infusing intercultural competence and ethics into educational discourse. Prior to joining Hamad Bin Khalifa University as a visiting professor, he was a faculty member at Yorkville University and an associate lecturer at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Negotiating Diasporic Identity in Arab-Canadian Students: Double Consciousness, Belonging, and Radicalization (Palgrave, 2019) and Medieval Muslim Philosophers and Intercultural Communication: Towards a Dialogical Paradigm in Education (Routledge, 2023).
Contact: Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doha, Qatar.