Amin Husain
{{Short description|American activist and professor}}
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| occupation = Activist, academic
| organization = Decolonize This Place, MTL+
| education = B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Valparaiso University, J.D. from Indiana University School of Law, LL.M. from Columbia Law School
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Amin Husain is a Palestinian-American activist and adjunct professor at New York University, though {{As of|2024|01|lc=y}} he has been suspended from that position.{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=NYU Web |title=Statement by NYU Spokesperson John Beckman Regarding Amin Husain |url=http://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/about/news-publications/news/2024/january/statement-by-nyu-spokesperson-john-beckman-regarding-amin-husain |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=www.nyu.edu |language=en}}
Academic career
He has a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Valparaiso University in 1998, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 2001, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2004.
He joined the New York University faculty as a part-time adjunct professor in 2016.{{Cite web |date=2016-10-04 |title=People > Faculty > Amin Husain > NYU Gallatin |url=https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html |access-date=2024-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004190816/https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html |archive-date=2016-10-04}} His academic work focuses on resistance and liberation and postcolonial theory. Prior to NYU, he taught at The New School, before leaving in 2019.
In January 2024, Husain was suspended as an adjunct professor at NYU after denying sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October attack on Israel and describing New York as a "Zionist city" at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally.{{cite news |last1=Keene |first1=Louis |title=NYU instructor suspended after denying Oct. 7 atrocities at SJP event |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/577543/nyu-adjunct-amin-husain-denies-oct-7-atrocities/ |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=The Forward |date=2024-01-25}}
Activism
He is a founding member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction; founding member and managing editor of the magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy; founding member of the collective MTL; and founding member of NYC Solidarity with Palestine.{{Cite web|url=https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html|title=Amin Husain|last=|first=|date=August 5, 2019|website=NYU Gallatin|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20231001145508/https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html Archived version] He has directed and produced an experimental documentary film about Palestinian Territories titled, On This Land.{{Cite web|url=http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/AminHusain.html|title=Amin Husain|website=as.nyu.edu|access-date=2019-08-05}} He is a supporter of New York City Students for Justice in Palestine and is an active supporter of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement, emphasizing the cultural and academic boycott of Israel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artscabinet.org/editorial/interview-nitasha-dhillon-and-amin-husain-mtl-collective|title=Interview: Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain - MTL Collective|website=Arts Cabinet|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-05|archive-date=2019-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717033345/https://www.artscabinet.org/editorial/interview-nitasha-dhillon-and-amin-husain-mtl-collective|url-status=dead}}
As of 2017, he was the lead organizer of Decolonize This Place whose organization is founded on five main issues: Free Palestine, Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Global Wage Workers, and de-gentrification.{{Cite web |date=2017-01-09 |title=Learning from Decolonize This Place |url=https://hyperallergic.com/350186/learning-from-decolonize-this-place/ |access-date=2019-08-05 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |date=2019-05-17 |title='We Will Come Back': Decolonize This Place Leads Protest at Whitney, Marches to Controversial Board Member's House |url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/05/17/we-will-come-back-decolonize-this-place-leads-protest-at-whitney-marches-to-controversial-board-members-house/ |access-date=2019-08-05 |website=ARTnews |language=en-US}} He was also co-founder of the MTL+ Collective.
In 2018-2019, he led (via Decolonize) the weekly protest at the Whitney Museum in New York, called the "Nine Weeks of Art and Action" to protest Warren Kanders' position as the vice-chair of Whitney's board. At the end of the protest on May 17, 2019, the protestors walked to Kanders' home.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/05/17/we-will-come-back-decolonize-this-place-leads-protest-at-whitney-marches-to-controversial-board-members-house/|title='We Will Come Back': Decolonize This Place Leads Protest at Whitney, Marches to Controversial Board Member's House|last=Greenberger|first=Alex|date=2019-05-17|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-06}}
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