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Imad Harb
Senior Program Officer, Education Program

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Languages: Arabic

Imad Harb is a senior program officer in USIP's Education program, where he is engaged in developing higher education peace studies curricula in Iraq and democratizing classrooms in Iraqi universities. He conducts workshops to enrich the teaching experience in postconflict Iraq by bringing together faculty members from different sectarian and ethnic groups to introduce them to complementary pedagogies and materials. Harb taught political science and Middle East studies at the University of Utah and San Francisco State University.

He was also an adjunct professor of Arabic at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland, and taught Arabic at the Middle East Institute.

Harb received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Utah, where his dissertation analyzed the disengagement of the military from politics and the transition to electoral democracy in Egypt and Turkey.

Publications:

• Higher Education and the Future of Iraq
  Special Report (January 2008).
• Lebanon's Confessionalism: Problems and Prospects
  USIPeace Briefing (March 2006).
• "Iraqi Universities Ushering in Change," The Baltimore Sun (January 5, 2006).
• "Lebanese-American Strategic Objectives," National Strategy Forum Review (Vol. 14, Issue 2, Spring, 2005).
• "The Egyptian Military in Politics: Disengagement or Accommodation?," Middle East Journal (2003).
• "Book Review: Nicola Christine Pratt, The Legacy of the Corporatist State: Explaining Workers Responses to Economic Liberalization in Egypt," (Middle East Paper No. 60, MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002).
• "Lebanon, Syria, and the Middle East Peace Process: Reconstructing Viable Economies," The Political Economy of Middle East Peace: The Impact of Competing Trade Agendas, J.W. Wright, ed. (1999).
• "Book Review: Nazih Richani, Dilemmas of Democracy and Political Parties in Sectarian Societies: The Case of the Progressive Socialist Party in Lebanon," International Journal of Middle East Studies (1999).