Joelle Abi-Rached
Joelle M. Abi-Rached, MD, MSc, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut, with a secondary appointment in History and Archaeology and an affiliation with Harvard’s Department of History of Science. She is the author of ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (MIT Press) and co-author of Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (Princeton University Press). She has taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and her research has appeared in Nature Medicine, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Boston Review, and Le Monde. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, and others, and translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, and Japanese. She is co-editing Lebanon: Anatomy of a Collapse (Hurst Publishers) and is the founding director of AUB’s new program on Medical History, Ethics, and Politics. She has received numerous fellowships, including one from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
