Joseph Andoni Massad (Arabic: جوزيف مسعد‎) (born 1963) is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, whose academic work has focused on Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli nationalism. He is also known for his book Desiring Arabs, about representations of sexual desire in the Arab world.Massad, a Palestinian Christian, was born in Jordan in 1963.