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Nazir
Harb

Assistant Research at Woodrow Wilson International Research Center

27, Seattle, Washington

Nazir was the founder and president of the Muslim Student Association at Seattle University. In 2005-2006 he lived in Cairo and studied classical Arabic. Nazir has researched code-switching among Arabs in Cairo, Granada, Marrakesh, and Seattle. He has also composed original research pertaining to cultures of human rights among Muslim Iranian-Americans and notions of self-concept in identity formation in the 21st century among African-born students in the Seattle area. He is currently working on developing a field he calls the ‘political sociolinguistics of Arabic discourse’. Nazir enjoys traveling, reading, writing, and learning languages in his spare time. He speaks Spanish and Arabic and taught Arabic twice a week in addition to organizing many cultural and educational events on campus. He will work at the Woodrow Wilson Center through the fall and then will begin work at a human rights organization in Morocco in the winter.


Nazir Harb's Schools

  • Seattle University , Class of 2008
    Bachelors
  • Princeton University , Class of 2007

    Public Policy and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson Fellowship summer institute program. Fellows drafted foreign policy recommendations under Professor Christopher Kojm regarding the war in Iraq. Fellows also undertook intensive statistics and microeconomics courses to supplement the quantitative elements of policy making. All recommendations were presented to reviewed by and expert analysts and federal elected officials.

Nazir Harb's Companies

  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2008 - 2008 - Washington, D.c., District of Columbia
    Research Assistant in Visiting Scholars Program
    Research Assistant in Visiting Scholars Program, conducting qualitative research with Muslim Americans to compose a narrative responding to the conflation of Islam with global terrorism as a dimension of identity formation.

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