Joelle M Abi-Rached

Associate Researcher , Sciences Po, Paris

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Joelle M Abi-Rached is an associate researcher at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Her books include Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (2013), co-authored with Nikolas Rose, and ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (2020).

Written by Joelle M Abi-Rached

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HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MENTAL HEALTH

Frantz Fanon and the crisis of mental health in the Arab world

Where is Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial ‘new man’ to be found in the persistence of psychiatric institutions in the Arab world?

by Joelle M Abi-Rached