京都市立芸術大学ギャラリー@KCUA

Ziad Abu-Rish is a historian of the modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and author of The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence (forthcoming from Stanford University Press). Together with Tania El Khoury, he not only co-created but also performs in the work The Search for Power. Highlighting Abu-Rish’s research on Lebanon’s electricity crisis and resistance movements in the Middle East, this talk explores the connection between his creative and academic practices, as well as his collaborations at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College and Jadaliyya electronic magazine.

Guest:
Ziad Abu-Rish

Host:
Mizuho Fujita (Chief curator/Program Director, KCUA Art Gallery)

Ziad Abu-Rish is a scholar of the modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. His research centers around state formation, economic development, and popular mobilizations, particularly in Lebanon and Jordan. He earned his PhD in History from the University of California Los Angeles, and his MA in Arab Studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Abu-Rish is author of The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence (forthcoming from Stanford University Press), and coeditor of The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (2012). He is the author of several articles and chapters, including “Garbage Politics in Lebanon,” “Municipal Elections in Lebanon,” and “Lebanon Beyond Exceptionalism.” He serves as coeditor of Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya e-zine, and codirector of the Lebanese Dissertation Summer Institute. Abu-Rish is Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle East Studies at Bard College, where he also directs the MA Program in Human Rights and the Arts.