[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 85 (Thursday, June 7, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1020]
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                   IN RECOGNITION OF DR. MAZEN NAOUS

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, June 7, 2012

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Dr. Mazen 
Naous, an internationally recognized professor, poet and author.
  A native of Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Naous immigrated to the United 
States at the age of eighteen to pursue his collegiate career. He 
attended The Boston Conservatory and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor 
of Fine Arts in Music Composition and Classic Guitar. He continued his 
education at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he earned a 
Master of Arts in 2001 and his Ph.D. in English Literature from 
University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. During his post-graduate 
studies, Dr. Naous was the recipient of the Kennedy Award for 
Outstanding Work in the Field of Poetry and a national Consortium for 
Faculty Diversity Fellowship.
  Dr. Naous has dedicated his career to higher education and improving 
intercultural understanding between the United States and Arab world. 
Currently, Dr. Naous is an assistant professor of English and 
comparative literature at the College of Wooster. Previously, he taught 
at the Lebanese American University, City University of New York and 
College of Staten Island. Dr. Naous will be returning to Lebanon in the 
next academic year where he will be teaching at the University of 
Balamand.
  Currently, Dr. Naous is working on his first book, The Arab American 
Novel and Alternative Poetics. According to Dr. Naous, the book aims to 
secure a space for Arab American literature in the fields of American 
studies and postcolonial diasporas, and assert its importance to 
aesthetics and artistic innovation.
  Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in recognizing the 
renowned career of Dr. Mazen Naous.

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