Awad Ibrahim is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. He is a curriculum theorist with special interests in cultural studies ; Hip-Hop ; youth and Black popular culture ; social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education); social justice and community service learning ; diasporic and continental African identities ; ethnography ; and applied linguistics.
He has researched and published widely in these areas. Among his books are Global Linguistic Flows : Hip-Hop Cultures, Youth Identities and the Politics of Language (2009 ; with Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook); Critical Youth Studies : A Reader (Peter Lang, 2014 ; with Shirley Steinberg); Provoking Curriculum Studies : Strong Poetry and the Arts of the Possible (forthcoming ; with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Giuliano Reis); and The Education of African Canadian Children : Critical Analyses (forthcoming ; with Ali Abdi).