Wisam Alshaibi is a sociologist and an assistant professor of social research and public policy at New York University Abu Dhabi.[1] He is also a former drummer for the post-hardcore band The Blackout Pact.[2]
Career
Originally from Colorado, Alshaibi received his B.A. degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.[3] He specializes in selfhood, political violence, war, and foreign policy, especially in the two U.S. invasions of Iraq.
Alshaibi's research has exposed the links of the Iraq Memory Foundation, a nonprofit founded by Kanan Makiya to preserve knowledge of the atrocities of the Saddam Hussein regime, to the Pentagon.[4] He revealed that the foundation received $5.1 million in contracts from the Pentagon from 2004 to 2006 in order to publicize Saddam Hussein's atrocities as part of the U.S. war effort.[5]
Personal life
Alshaibi is the brother of the filmmaker Usama Alshaibi and the artist Sama Alshaibi. His family is Iraqi and Palestinian.[6]
References
- ^ "Wisam Alshaibi | Social Science | NYU Abu Dhabi". nyuad.nyu.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "Interviews: The Blackout Pact". Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "Wisam Alshaibi | Social Science | NYU Abu Dhabi". nyuad.nyu.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Maryam Saleh, "Protection or Plunder?" The Intercept (May 23, 2018).
- ^ Wisam Alshaibi, "Weaponizing Iraq's Archives," Middle East Report 291 (Summer 2019).
- ^ Alshaibi, Sama (2013). "A Tale of Two Exiles". We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. pp. 171–181. ISBN 9780815651994. JSTOR j.ctt1j1vzvd. OCLC 830004839.