{"id":34793,"date":"2026-10-28T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=34793"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:14:20","slug":"passing-of-sociologist-dr-baha-abu-laban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2026\/passing-of-sociologist-dr-baha-abu-laban\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Sociologist Dr. Baha Abu-Laban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Passing of Sociologist Dr. Baha Abu-Laban\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Obituary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Baha Abu-Laban, C.M., Professor Emeritus of the University of Alberta has\u00a0passed away recently in Edmonton.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Abu-Laban&nbsp;had a remarkable life and career, from his beginnings in Palestine, did his graduate studies in the US and made many notable contributions while he was a Professor and held major administrative positions at the University of Alberta.&nbsp; His work on Arabs in Canada, about which he published the first major study as a book, and on Palestinians.&nbsp; He also made major contributions in fostering work on immigration and diasporas when he established an innovative centre for research on immigration, integration, and diversity at the University of Alberta.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus.list-manage.com%2FMVbsi3wP9Fv%3Fe%3Dd6b9262e1c%26c2id%3De2546ea7ca94b7d29d6490fa068f5e1b&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ckileyjohnston%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C880b6aa3d3da48be6f1208df296b835d%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639275213893443080%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=toGQmyzk0lRw17PiyhAQjwJHHcTes6JEtMApWeegYrs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Obituary information for Baha Abu-Laban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituary Dr. Baha Abu-Laban, C.M., Professor Emeritus of the University of Alberta has\u00a0passed away recently in Edmonton.\u00a0 Dr. Abu-Laban&nbsp;had a remarkable life and career, from his beginnings in Palestine, did his graduate studies in the US and made many notable contributions while he was a Professor and held major administrative positions at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departmental-blog","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34794,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793\/revisions\/34794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}