Authors

Sanad Tabbaa

Sanad Tabbaa is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) whose study focuses on the history of the modern Middle East. Specifically, he is passionate about representation of Middle Eastern leaders and their ideologies across time in regional and global contexts. Sanad draws from his experiences growing up in Amman, Jordan, to inform his approaches to the history and varied philosophies of the region. 

ARTICLES BY Sanad Tabbaa

  • Researching the Middle East: The Internet Is Not Your Friend

    Researching the Middle East: The Internet Is Not Your Friend

    The Middle East is characterized in media and, to a lesser extent, academia as almost unknowably complex, as though the particularities of the region lend to it an air of tangled mystery. This is not innate but is produced and reproduced by simplifying narratives put forth by media agencies and ..

  • Qaddafi’s Libya Has Never Existed

    Qaddafi’s Libya Has Never Existed

    It is often difficult to separate fact from fiction in the information-rich world of today. The process becomes even more difficult when you consider subjects that themselves are contentious whether due to bizarreness, complexity, competing narratives, or plain obscurity of information. Muammar ..