Some of Our Members
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Bucknell University
Iran ◦ race ◦ slavery and emancipation ◦ visual culture
publications:
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University of California, Santa Cruz
Modern Jewish history in North Africa and the Middle East ◦ Jewish political history ◦ leftist movements in the Middle East and North Africa
Publications:
The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Press, 2021)
“The Dream of Al-Wifaq: Moroccan Muslim-Jewish Unity at the Moment of Independence” in special issue of Hespéris-Tamuda: Histoire contemporaine du Maroc Passé et Temps present, Mélanges en l’honneur de Mohammed Kenbib. no. 86 (Summer 2021): 305-322.
“Nuancing the Narrative: Teaching the Jewish Modern Middle East,” in Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East, ed. Omnia El Shakry (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), 283-294.
“Sacred Values: Islam, Communism, and Moroccan Nationalism in the Long 1960s,” in Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century, Hugh McLeod and Todd H. Weir, Eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 211-230.
“Fissures and Fusions: Moroccan Jewish Communists before, during, and after WWII,” in The Holocaust and North Africa, Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, Eds. (Stanford University Press, 2019): 185-204.
“Jewish Radicals of Morocco: Case Study for a New Historiography,” in Jewish Social Studies Vol. 23, No. 30, Spring/Summer 2018: 67-100.
“Multivariable Casablanca: Vichy Law, Jewish Diversity, and the Moroccan Communist Party” in Hespéris-Tamuda special issue “Jews of Morocco and the Maghreb: History and Historiography,” Vol. LI – Fascicule 3, (2016): 13-34.
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Staffordshire University
Palestine ◦ Bilad al-Sham ◦ colonialism ◦ historiography ◦ history of archaeology ◦ environmental histories
publications:
Books:
The House of the Priest: the Memoirs of Niqula Khoury, translated, edited and introduced by Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif and Karène Sanchez Summerer (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2022)
Cultural Entanglement in the Pre Independence Arab World, edited volume with Dr Anthony Gorman (London: IB Tauris, 2020)
A Bird is Not a Stone: Contemporary Palestinian Poetry in the Languages of Scotland (co-edited with Henry Bell) (Glasgow: Freight Books, 2014)
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation (London: Pluto Press, 2012; Danish edition 2013, Turkish and Arabic editions 2014, Bahasa Indonesia edition 2016)
Bradt Guide to Palestine (Chalfont St Giles: Bradt Guides, 2012)
Articles and Chapters:
“Donations and their destinations in the 1927 Palestine Earthquake,"" Revue d'histoire culturelle 2, 1 (2021)
“Palestine’s Syriac Orthodox Community and the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Contemporary Levant 6,1(Spring 2021)
“Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: history and archaeology in a colonial space ..” In European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918- 1948: Between Contention and Connection, ed. Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
“Confronting the Mythic? Najwan Darwish and Post millennium Palestinian Poetry.” In Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance, ed. Rachel Gregory Fox and Ahmad Qabaha. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2021
“Translator, ‘native informant,’ fixer: activism and translation in Mandate Palestine.” In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism, ed. Rebecca Gould and Kayvan Tahmesabian. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020
“‘This is Palestine’: history and modernity in guidebooks to Mandate Palestine.” Contemporary Levant 4,1 (2019): 64-74
“An ‘honorary man' in the Holy Land? Mary Eliza Rogers, gender, and British Protestant imperialism.” In British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770-1870, ed. Sutapa Dutta. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019
“Nathan der Weise in Jerusalem: the re appropriation of tolerance in Mandate Palestine.” In Transferring Christianity: Crossing Cultural Boundaries. Baden Baden, Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 2019
“’A Young Man of Promise’: Finding a place for Stephan Hanna Stephan in the history of Mandate Palestine.” Jerusalem Quarterly 73 (Spring 2018)
“A Tale of Two Yusifs: recovering Arab agency in Palestine Exploration Fund excavations 1890-1924.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 149,3 (September 2017)
“Arabs/Jews, Palestinians/Israelis: politics and romance in literature by Palestinian writers.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 39, 2 (Summer 2017 special issue: The Anglo Arab Literary World in Comparison) Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism entries on Qasim Amin, Salma al Khadra al Jayyusi and Anton Shammas (ed. Simon Rees, 2017)
“Gender, conflict and Muslim Jewish romance in Two Arabic Novels.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 12:3 (November 2016)"
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Leiden University
Modern Middle East ◦ Social History ◦ Oral History ◦ Diaspora
publications:
“A Presence without a Narrative: The Greeks in Egypt, 1961-1976/Une présence sans récit : la communauté grecque en Égypte, 1961-1976”, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée November 2018 (144): 175-190.
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Leiden University
minorities ◦ diaspora ◦ Modern Lebanon and Syria
publications:
Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon, eds. Nalbantian T., Deeb L., Sbaiti, N. (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon Their Own (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
“Going Beyond Overlooked Populations in Lebanese Historiography: The Armenian Case,” History Compass 11(10) (2013): 821–832."
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Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Historical Anthropology ◦ Materialities ◦ Race/Class/Gender ◦ Migration ◦ Urban Anthropology ◦ Transnationalism ◦ Middle East/Arab World ◦ Latin America
publications:
Books
The Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews and Arabs under the French Mandate. University of Texas Press, 2017.
Mundos Árabes en Movimiento: Historia del Presente, with Gilberto Conde y Marta Tawil (eds.) (El Colegio de México/CIDE, 2016).
Mundo árabe: Levantamientos populares, contextos, crisis y reconfiguraciones, with Gilberto Conde, Marta Tawil (eds.), (El Colegio de México/CIDE)
Articles and book chapters
“Sauts de foi, actes de foi : les conversions à l’islam et les cultures publiques mexicaines” in Sylvie Taussig, L’Islam au Mexicque et en France.Regards Croises. Hémisphères Editions / Maisonneuve et Larose (2021)
“Ser Musulmán Nuevo en México” En Yolotl González Torres (Ed.) Religión Popular de México y el Mundo. Sociedad Mexicana para el Estudio de las Religiones y Dirección de Etnología y Antropología Social, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México D.F. (2019)
“Esa puta llamada Tanger. That whore called Tangier. Tropes and practices of Tangerine prostitution in Hispanophone memoir and fiction.” Journal of North African Studies. (2018-19)
[Invited text] “President Trump’s Moving Targets”. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Duke University Press. (2017)
Anna Ayuso, Santiago Villar, Camila Pastor, and Miguel Fuentes “Actors and Opportunities: Interregional processes between the Arab region and Latin America and the Caribbean” in Frank Matthias and Andreas Listegard (eds.) Interregionalism across the Atlantic Space. Springer Press, pp. 51-74. (2017)
“El Mashreq francés en México. Patronazgo, propiedad y la lectura de los cuerpos en la Poscolonia”, en Kamchatka. Revista de Análisis Cultural. (2017)
Ileana Rodríguez y José María Martínez (eds.), Madrid, España, pp. 247-279. (2017)
“From Ottoman Modernity to French Beirut”, In Jean Michel Chaumont, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Paul Servais (eds.) Trafficking in women, 1924-1926. The Paul Kinsie reports for the League of Nations. United Nations Historical Series, United Nations. (2017)
“Performers or Prostitutes? The regulation of Artistes in Mandate Lebanon and Syria, 1921-1946”. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 13:2, pp. 287-311 (2017)
“Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico”, In Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latino USA, Maria del Mar Logroño, Paulo Pinto and John Tofik Karam (eds.), Texas University Press. (2015)
“El Modernismo en un Atlántico Moro: historias de viaje” en Andalusíes. Historia Cultural de una elite Maghrebi. José Antonio González Alcantud y Sandra Rojo (eds.), Ed. Abada. Madrid, España (2015)
“Suspect Service: Prostitution and the Public in the Mandate Mediterranean”, In The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (eds.) “Movilización y modernidad en el Medio Oriente”. Estudios de Asia y África. El Colegio de México, México, D.F. (2015)
“Moving Mashrequis. Empire and the Politics of Notables”, en Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese Communities in the World. Anton Escher, Paul Tabar Tobias Booth (eds.), Universitätsverlag, Winter, Heidelberg, Germany (2014)
“The Mashreq Unbound: Arab Modernism, Criollo Nationalism and the Discovery of America by the Turks”, Mashriq & Mahjar. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014)
“Mujeres y Revueltas en el Mundo Árabe: Historia y orientalismos”. Foro Internacional. CEI, Colegio de México 2013
“Chávez de Arabia: Genealogía de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Siria y Venezuela, 1946-2011”, en "Apuntes para el estudio de las relaciones entre Siria y América Latina", en Luis Mesa Delmonte (coord.), Las relaciones exteriores de Siria, El Colegio de México , México, pp. 337-420. (2013)
“La creación de un ámbito público transnacional (segunda parte)”, en Estudios de Asia y África. El Colegio de México, México, D.F. Vol. XLVIII. Enero-Abril. Número 1, pp. 99-134. (2013)
“La creación de un ámbito público transnacional (primera parte)”, en Estudios de Asia y África. El Colegio de México, México, D.F. Vol. XLVII. Septiembre-Diciembre. Número 3, pp. 485-520. (2012)
“Revolt and Revolution in the Modern Middle Eastern Regions and Cohesion. Volume 2 Issue 3, pp. 22-44 (winter). (2012)
“Anatomía del ámbito público en el mundo árabe”, en Istor. Revista de Historia Internacional, Historias de la opinión pública, Año XIII, Número 50, Otoño 2012, pp. 129-147. (2012)
“Palestina como espectáculo en la prensa del Mahjar mexicano”, en Más allá del Medio Oriente: las diásporas judía y árabe en América Latina. Raanan Rein (et al.), Universidad de Granada/ Universidad de Tel Aviv, pp. 55-76. (2012)
“Revueltas y Revoluciones en el Medio Oriente Moderno 1830-2011”, en El pueblo quiere que caiga el régimen, Luis Mesa Delmonte (coord.), Colegio de México, México, D.F. (2012)
"Inscribing Difference: Maronites, Jews and Arabs in Mexican Public Culture and French Imperial Practice", in Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Vol. 6, Número. 2, pp. 169-187 (2011)
“La Economía Política de la Fé: Ser Musulmán Nuevo en México”, Istor 45. Revista de Historia Internacional, Año XII, pp. 54-75, Junio (2011)
“Secta y Subalternización en la migración del Medio Oriente a México”, en Árabe Hablantes, Iberoamericanos, Judíos Cristianos y Musulmanes, Hamurabi Noufouri (ed.), Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires (2010)
“The Thousand and One Nights as living narrative: Transgressing the boundaries of the textual tradition”, in One World Periphery Reads the Other. Knowing the ‘Oriental’ in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. Ignacio López-Calvo (ed.), Cambridge Scholars Press (2009)
“Lo Árabe y su Doble. Imaginarios de principios de siglo en Honduras y México”, en Contribuciones Árabes a las Identidades Latinoamericanas. (Ed.) Gema Martín Muñoz y Karim Hauser. Casa Árabe /SEGIB/ BibliASPA (2009)
“Invisible Hands: Twentieth Century Networks and Institutions of the Mashreqi Migration to Mexico”, Palma Journal 11 (2009):31-7. Emigration, Diaspora and Lebanese Network Communities, Número especial de Palma Journal. Lebanese Emigration Research Center, Notre Dame de Louaize University, Lebanon (2009)
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University of Maine
20th-century Mediterranean and Middle East ◦ Kemalist Turkey ◦ suffrage activism ◦ authoritarianism ◦ cultural history
publications:
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Morgan State University
Colonial Algeria ◦ gender and sexuality ◦ print culture ◦ Islam
publications:
The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (2023)
“Hats and Hijabs in Interwar Algeria,” Gender & History, Volume 32, Issue No. 2 (July 2020)
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Political economy ◦ race ◦ medicine ◦ archives ◦ Palestine ◦ Egypt, Sudan
publications:
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, with Joel Beinin and Bassam Haddad (Stanford University Press, 2020).
"The Matter of Time," The American Historical Review, Volume 124, Issue 5, December 2019, 1681–1688.
“How I Met My Great-Grandfather: Archives and the Writing of History,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 38: 1 (2018); 6-20.
“A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People,” The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger, eds. Manisha Basu and Anastasia Ulanowicz. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 2018; 135-156
Men of Capital: Economy and Scarcity in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016)
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American University
Middle Eastern history ◦ gender ◦ colonialism ◦ social movements ◦ democracy ◦ film history
publications:
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance (Grove-Atlantic, 2020);
Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East (Harvard 2013)
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (Columbia 2000).
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Georgetown University
women's and gender history ◦ Arab World ◦ early modern and modern
publications:
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History, co-author (Indiana University Press, 1999).
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (California University Press, 1998)
Women in 19th Century Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1985)