Hussain Abdul-Hussain

Hussain Abdul-Hussain (Arabic: حسين عبدالحسين) is a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a non-partisan organization in Washington. He previously worked as the Washington Bureau Chief of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai (formerly Al Rai Alam).

Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Native name	حسين عبدالحسين
Born	Lebanon
Occupation	Middle East Expert
Nationality	American
Education	American University of Beirut
Subject	The United States and the Middle East
Website
hussainabdulhussain.substack.com

Biography

Hussain Abdul-Hussain also worked for the US Congress-funded Arabic TV, Alhurra, as a news producer. Since 2017, Abdul-Hussain has maintained a weekly column with Alhurra digital. Prior to joining Alhurra, he worked as a reporter and later as editor for Beirut's The Daily Star [1] 2020-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. He was in Baghdad in April/May 2003 where he reported on the downfall of the Saddam Hussein regime. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, the USA Today and the Baltimore Sun and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and the BBC. He appears regularly on Arabic satellite TV stations.

Abdul-Hussain is a former Visiting Fellow with Chatham House, London.[2]

Abdul-Hussain is a graduate of the American University of Beirut where he studied history of the Middle East.

His published Op-Eds:

The New York Times

• A Vote of Thanks (2010)

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• Now It is Up to US (2009)

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• In Iraq, the Play was the Thing (2007)

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• My First Day of Freedom (2003)

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The Washington Post

• Standing Up to Killers (2007)

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The Christian Science Monitor

• Two Faces of the Arab Street (2007)

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The International Herald Tribune

• Are they Leaving? An Email from Baghdad (2007)

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• Meanwhile: Fearing a return of the bad old days (2007)

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• Learning about the Enemy (2007)

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The USA Today

• Justice for Lebanon (2007)

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Published Papers

• "How Far Can Democracy Go? The Case of Lebanon 2005 (2010) (National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute)".
• "A Quest for Democracy in a World of Realism: The Cases of Lebanon and Iran (2009)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "Hezbollah: The State within a State (2008)(Hudson Institute, Current Trends)".

Other Works

On August 24, 2019, Abdul-Hussain posted at his website:^[1] "Ideas Beyond Borders asked me to write a forward to Bari Weiss’s book How to Fight Anti-Semitism, which the organization is translating to Arabic. The lines below are a rough translation to English of the forward that I wrote to address an Arabic-speaking audience..."

References

1. "Introducing How to Fight Anti-Semitism in Arabic". 24 August 2021.