Ghassan Hage teaches anthropology at the University of Sydney. He is an associate researcher with Pierre Bourdieu's Centre de Sociologie Europeenne in Paris, and the Centre for Behavioral Research at the American University of Beirut. His early research work has centred on the experience of nationalism, racism and multiculturalism among White Australians. It has been published in the book 'White Nation' (Routledge, New York, 2000). His more recent work on Australian nationalism appears in 'Against Parnoid Nationalism: searching for hope in a shrinking society' (Pluto Press, 2002). He has also recently edited Arab-Australians: citizenship and belonging, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002.