Joseph A. Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, dozens of scholarly articles and hundreds of op-eds. His books include Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question, Desiring Arabs, Islam in Liberalism and The Age of Independence: A Global History of Settler-Colonialism (forthcoming). He is a recipient of a number of research and teaching awards, including the Lionel Trilling Book Award for Desiring Arabs, the University of Pennsylvania’s Scott Nearing Award for Courageous Scholarship and the Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award. His works have been translated to more than a dozen languages including Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Persian, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, German and Indonesian. He is also a regular columnist in English and Arabic at the London-based publications Middle East Eye and Arabi21.
