Episode 111 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Abir Ward as a part of the TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Abir Ward was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia to Lebanese Druze parents, and lived on three continents before the age of 20. As a multinational and a multilingual, Dr. Ward describes herself as “multi-local,” to borrow Taiye Selasi’s words. She taught 1st year composition, English for international business, and technical writing for engineering at the American University of Beirut. There, she led the editorial work of Pages Apart, a 700-page homegrown academic reader used for teaching English, and she founded 2Rāth, a social justice initiative engaged in the politics of representation. 2Rāth helped create articles on Wikipedia about notable Arab women, and its work has so far garnered over 20 million views. In the fall semester of 2021, she will be joining Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program where she will work on social, linguistic, and environmental justice initiatives.For more information on TBR Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on Twitter @thebigrhet.
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