New: Dr. Abir Ward on The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Episode 111

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Hey, Team Rhetoric! Episode 111 of TBR Podcast is live now! Don't miss Dr. Abir Ward discussing her new role at Boston University, her time at American University of Beirut (AUB), and various Wikipedia projects!

Listen: https://bit.ly/3SLSwPO

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3SvhEL2

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.

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