Joseph Massad
Joseph Andoni Massad (Arabic: جوزيف مسعد) (born 1963) is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, whose academic work has focused on Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli nationalism. He is also known for his book Desiring Arabs, about representations of sexual desire in the Arab world.
Massad, a Greek Orthodox Christian of Palestinian descent, was born in Jordan in 1963. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia in 1998.
Read more about Joseph Massad: Colonial Effects (2001), The Persistence of The Palestinian Question (2006), Desiring Arabs (2007), Columbia Unbecoming, Ankori Libel Suit, Books