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As'ad Abu Khalil
As'ad AbuKhalil (Angry Arab).
Born	As'ad AbuKhalil March 16, 1960 (1960-03-16) (age 47) Tyre, Lebanon
Nationality	Lebanese
Other names	"Angry Arab"
Occupation	professor of political science
Website	http://angryarab.blogspot.com/

As'ad AbuKhalil Arabic: أسعد أبو خليل (born March 16, 1960) is a professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998) and Bin Laden, Islam & America's New "War on Terrorism" (2002). He maintains a blog, The Angry Arab News Service, in which he describes himself as an "atheist secularist".^[1]

AbuKhalil was born in Tyre, Lebanon, and grew up in Beirut. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the American University of Beirut, and a Ph.D. in comparative government from Georgetown University. He has taught at Tufts University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Colorado College, California State University Stanislaus, and Randolph-Macon Woman's College.^[2]

• Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), ISBN 0810833956
• Bin Laden, Islam & America's New "War on Terrorism" (2002), ISBN 1583224920
• The Battle For Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power (2004), ISBN 1583226109

• The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan gave us the Taliban. The American occupation of Saudi Arabia gave us bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The Israeli occupation of Lebanon gave us Hezbollah. Let us see what the American occupation of Iraq is going to give us. ^[3]

• I have lived half of my life in "Western society" and never encountered those principles [listed by the NYT as "Western" ]. What is wrong with me. ... So Mr. Bush stands for "gender equality, religious freedom, scientific inquiry and the rule of law" and I have never noticed?^[4][5]

• Paris Hilton gets more coverage than Congo, Darfur, Palestine, and Nahr Al-Barid combined.^[6]

• The Angry Arab News Service
• Debate with Irshad Manji Debate with Irshad Manji, Muslim feminist/reformist, on the 2006 cartoon controversy and the worldwide protests.
• Comments on Democracy Now, July 17 2006 Interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on the July 2006 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon - 26:30 into the broadcast (real player format)
• Between disparate worlds (on California State University professor As'ad AbuKhalil), an extended interview and biography, on campus-watch.org.

1. ^ "Now I am an atheist secularist, but will not impose my views on Iraqis--how nice of me, and how charitable, praise be to me."[1]
2. ^ http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
3. ^ http://www.boston.com/news/packages/iraq/globe_stories/042703_ideas.htm
4. ^ ...the principles of Western societies...
5. ^ http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2007/03/given-her-background-in-repressed.html
6. ^ http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2007/06/paris-hilton-gets-more-coverage-than.html