Bucknell University

Iran ◦ race ◦ slavery and emancipation ◦ visual culture

publications:

The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (2024)

“The Myths of Haji Firuz: the Racist Contours of the Iranian Minstrel,” Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association (2021)

“From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem: Examining Kurdizadeh’s ‘Layla Bigufta,’ and Blackness in late twentieth-century Iran,” Journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2021)

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University of California, Davis

migration and diaspora ◦ Syria ◦ Lebanon ◦ Palestine ◦ borderlands studies ◦ refugees

publications:

• Between the Ottomans and the Entente: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2019)

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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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Stanford University

History of Technology ◦ Ottoman Empire ◦ Librarianship

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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:

“Bad Romance: Toxic Masculinity, Authoritarianism, and Heartbreak in Interwar Italian and Turkish Women’s Novels, 1923-32,” Journal of Women’s History 33, no. 2 (2021): 35-60.

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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)

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