Jack George Shaheen Jr. (Arabic: جاك جورج شاهين; September 21, 1935 – July 9, 2017) was an American writer and lecturer specializing in addressing racial and ethnic stereotypes.
"[5] Shaheen was also a former CBS News consultant on Middle East affairs, U.S. Army veteran, and professor emeritus of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
Jehanzeb Dar, for instance, cited Shaheen as a secondary source for the observation that "Batman speaks Farsi in Beirut" in a comic book storyline.
" Early Hezbollah's influence in the Beqaa Valley, Batman/Bruce Wayne's destination, thus made the organization a candidate for the vilified "radical Shiite captors" as "bandits-in-bedsheets" in "Death in the Family."
[8] Shaheen received two Fulbright teaching awards[1] He was also the distinguished visiting scholar at New York University's Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.