Meet the 2018 Institute Participants
[Logistical constraints require us to limit the number of overall participants and bring new participants in each year.]
Faith Cowling
Institution:
Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Dissertation Title:
Enacting Gender through Humanitarian Practice in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
My research is based on an understanding of gender as entwined within much broader social, cultural, economic, political, and religious structures. But also bound up in the physical world, enacted bodily, signalled and challenged through its relationships with clothes, tools, medicines, hygiene products, the objects of everyday life. Put another way, gender is relational, and by following everyday socio-material practices these relations can be understood. Drawing on theory from a range of fields including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Refugee Studies, I want to follow these tangles to explore how gender is relationally made manifest through international humanitarian aid programmes in Lebanon.
Department of International Development, University of Oxford
Dissertation Title:
Enacting Gender through Humanitarian Practice in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
My research is based on an understanding of gender as entwined within much broader social, cultural, economic, political, and religious structures. But also bound up in the physical world, enacted bodily, signalled and challenged through its relationships with clothes, tools, medicines, hygiene products, the objects of everyday life. Put another way, gender is relational, and by following everyday socio-material practices these relations can be understood. Drawing on theory from a range of fields including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Refugee Studies, I want to follow these tangles to explore how gender is relationally made manifest through international humanitarian aid programmes in Lebanon.
Joshua Donovan
Institution:
Department of History, Columbia University
Dissertation Title:
The Transnational Nationalism of the Unorthodox Orthodox: liberalism, identity, and diaspora in Greek Orthodox Syria and
Dissertation Abstract:
My dissertation traces competing conceptions of identity among the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Christian community in Syria, Lebanon, and the broader diaspora from 1898-1958. By examining a diverse cast of characters, including diplomats, philosophers, merchants, poets, clergy, and activists, I seek to recover a complex discursive arena through which communal subjectivity was debated in a rapidly changing world. Would Orthodox Christians identify as citizens of newly-delineated states and statelets or would they instead favor membership in a broader Syrian or Arab collective? Should they embrace the term "minority" and harness nascent global rights discourses to secure their position in society, or should they denounce the label as a product of colonialism?
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Religion, Secularism, and the Middle Eastern State; Empire and Liberalism; United States and the World, 1890-Present
Department of History, Columbia University
Dissertation Title:
The Transnational Nationalism of the Unorthodox Orthodox: liberalism, identity, and diaspora in Greek Orthodox Syria and
Dissertation Abstract:
My dissertation traces competing conceptions of identity among the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Christian community in Syria, Lebanon, and the broader diaspora from 1898-1958. By examining a diverse cast of characters, including diplomats, philosophers, merchants, poets, clergy, and activists, I seek to recover a complex discursive arena through which communal subjectivity was debated in a rapidly changing world. Would Orthodox Christians identify as citizens of newly-delineated states and statelets or would they instead favor membership in a broader Syrian or Arab collective? Should they embrace the term "minority" and harness nascent global rights discourses to secure their position in society, or should they denounce the label as a product of colonialism?
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Religion, Secularism, and the Middle Eastern State; Empire and Liberalism; United States and the World, 1890-Present
Aaron Eldridge
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
Dissertation Title:
Cultivating an Antiochian Tradition: Formations of Orthodox Renewal in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
This research ethnographically explores contemporary formations of ‘renewal’ within the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Lebanon. My aim is to better understand the project of renewal, a broad-based endeavor implicating ecclesial and theological debates among clergy as well as more quotidian lay activities and social movements. I ask how these heterogeneous endeavors gain salience within the grammar of Orthodox tradition and serve to animate contemporary religious practice. As such, this research tracks renewal through the history of the 20th century, which witnessed movements of Eastern Orthodox renewal, based in Russian émigré circles in France, take root in the Levant; new regimes of scholarship concerning ecclesial life and the theologies of Orthodoxy spurred a series of grassroots endeavors to recover traditions that were occluded through processes of colonialization and Westernization. I stage this inquiry through multiple contexts: the seminary and learning spaces in which Antiochian clergy and theologians are educated, parishes that house cantorial music schools, and revived translation efforts of Greek texts at Antiochian monasteries. Renewal is thus situated not simply as a discursive object but as implicated in the sensorial and aesthetic practices of body, sight, and sound. How is renewal adjudicated within the bounds of Orthodox tradition? Given the increasing precarity of life the Levant, what are the possibilities of grounding a tradition in the present?
PhD Examination Fields :
Anthropology of Christianity; Anthropological Methods and Theory; Philosophy of History and Tradition; Post-Colonial Theory
Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
Dissertation Title:
Cultivating an Antiochian Tradition: Formations of Orthodox Renewal in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
This research ethnographically explores contemporary formations of ‘renewal’ within the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Lebanon. My aim is to better understand the project of renewal, a broad-based endeavor implicating ecclesial and theological debates among clergy as well as more quotidian lay activities and social movements. I ask how these heterogeneous endeavors gain salience within the grammar of Orthodox tradition and serve to animate contemporary religious practice. As such, this research tracks renewal through the history of the 20th century, which witnessed movements of Eastern Orthodox renewal, based in Russian émigré circles in France, take root in the Levant; new regimes of scholarship concerning ecclesial life and the theologies of Orthodoxy spurred a series of grassroots endeavors to recover traditions that were occluded through processes of colonialization and Westernization. I stage this inquiry through multiple contexts: the seminary and learning spaces in which Antiochian clergy and theologians are educated, parishes that house cantorial music schools, and revived translation efforts of Greek texts at Antiochian monasteries. Renewal is thus situated not simply as a discursive object but as implicated in the sensorial and aesthetic practices of body, sight, and sound. How is renewal adjudicated within the bounds of Orthodox tradition? Given the increasing precarity of life the Levant, what are the possibilities of grounding a tradition in the present?
PhD Examination Fields :
Anthropology of Christianity; Anthropological Methods and Theory; Philosophy of History and Tradition; Post-Colonial Theory
Jo Kelcey
Institution:
Department of Applied Statistics, New York University
Dissertation Title:
Schooling the Stateless: The UNRWA Education Programme for Palestine Refugees in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
My dissertation examines the formation and evolution of education policy within the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), with a focus on the Agency’s history in Lebanon. I explore how the competing and often contradictory demands of the international aid system have shaped UNRWA's education policies and, by association, have influenced the Palestinian experience of protracted exile in the country. Underscoring this inquiry is a more general concern. Namely, whether and how conventional understandings of education as a public good anchored in the nation-state and its associated concept of citizenship, relate to the growing challenges of protracted displacement and statelessness. By examining this apparent discord, my research seeks to improve understanding of the possibilities and limitations facing education efforts for protracted refugee populations. This is especially relevant in the case of Lebanon. Not only does the country host the highest number of refugees per capita in the world but education responses to these refugees have been shaped by prevailing assumptions regarding the history of Palestinian refugees in the country. My research seeks to clarify and challenge these assumptions offering lessons for contemporary education policy and practice.
Department of Applied Statistics, New York University
Dissertation Title:
Schooling the Stateless: The UNRWA Education Programme for Palestine Refugees in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
My dissertation examines the formation and evolution of education policy within the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), with a focus on the Agency’s history in Lebanon. I explore how the competing and often contradictory demands of the international aid system have shaped UNRWA's education policies and, by association, have influenced the Palestinian experience of protracted exile in the country. Underscoring this inquiry is a more general concern. Namely, whether and how conventional understandings of education as a public good anchored in the nation-state and its associated concept of citizenship, relate to the growing challenges of protracted displacement and statelessness. By examining this apparent discord, my research seeks to improve understanding of the possibilities and limitations facing education efforts for protracted refugee populations. This is especially relevant in the case of Lebanon. Not only does the country host the highest number of refugees per capita in the world but education responses to these refugees have been shaped by prevailing assumptions regarding the history of Palestinian refugees in the country. My research seeks to clarify and challenge these assumptions offering lessons for contemporary education policy and practice.
Hratch Kestinian
Institution:
Department of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Dissertation Title:
Inventing the Magic Mountain: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society (1827-1922).
Dissertation Abstract:
This study focuses on the medicalization of late Ottoman society through the prism of tuberculosis. The geographical region that I plan to focus on is the Levantine coast from Cilicia to Mount Lebanon. To better understand this process, I will examine the following questions: how the definition of disease changed over time? Who spoke in the name of medical science? And where this knowledge was produced? More specifically, I'm interested in looking at how with the centralization of government medicine and disease acquired new meaning. As such, through the story of tuberculosis I aim to tell the story of how different communities (Western Missionaries, Armenian and Syrian villagers, and Ottoman officials) reacted to the new challenges of "modern" and "scientific" medicine and medicalized society through their approach.
PhD Examination Fields:
Late Ottoman History; Social History of the Modern Middle East; History of Medicine
Department of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Dissertation Title:
Inventing the Magic Mountain: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society (1827-1922).
Dissertation Abstract:
This study focuses on the medicalization of late Ottoman society through the prism of tuberculosis. The geographical region that I plan to focus on is the Levantine coast from Cilicia to Mount Lebanon. To better understand this process, I will examine the following questions: how the definition of disease changed over time? Who spoke in the name of medical science? And where this knowledge was produced? More specifically, I'm interested in looking at how with the centralization of government medicine and disease acquired new meaning. As such, through the story of tuberculosis I aim to tell the story of how different communities (Western Missionaries, Armenian and Syrian villagers, and Ottoman officials) reacted to the new challenges of "modern" and "scientific" medicine and medicalized society through their approach.
PhD Examination Fields:
Late Ottoman History; Social History of the Modern Middle East; History of Medicine
Owain Lawson
Institution:
Department of History, Columbia University
Dissertation Title:
Power Failures: Engineers and the Litani River, 1931-1971
Dissertation Abstract:
My dissertation investigates the history of the development of Lebanon’s Litani river between 1931 and 1971. I examine the research, design, and construction of hydroelectric and irrigation infrastructure that connected the Litani and the rural Biqa‘ valley with Beirut. The Litani project was Lebanon’s first large-scale development project, central to the co-production of urban-rural inequalities, and funded by an outsized World Bank loan that burdened the country for decades. I argue the project was not a monolithic imposition by the World Bank and Lebanese state onto a passive Lebanese people and landscape. Rather, it was negotiated and contingent, a means for Lebanese engineers to assert their national leadership and for rural communities to challenge the state. Upon its nominal conclusion, the Litani project drew resources from the hinterland and reinforced a cartography of unequal development that privileged the capital. This materialized inequality provided a basis for rural communities to mobilize into larger political-religious formations and make claims on the state. By putting the Litani at the center of its narrative, my dissertation reexamines the history of modern Lebanon, international development, and interrelations among technology, society, and environment.
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Modern Middle East Intellectual and Cultural History; Political Economy, Technology, and Development; Science, Environment, and Empire
Department of History, Columbia University
Dissertation Title:
Power Failures: Engineers and the Litani River, 1931-1971
Dissertation Abstract:
My dissertation investigates the history of the development of Lebanon’s Litani river between 1931 and 1971. I examine the research, design, and construction of hydroelectric and irrigation infrastructure that connected the Litani and the rural Biqa‘ valley with Beirut. The Litani project was Lebanon’s first large-scale development project, central to the co-production of urban-rural inequalities, and funded by an outsized World Bank loan that burdened the country for decades. I argue the project was not a monolithic imposition by the World Bank and Lebanese state onto a passive Lebanese people and landscape. Rather, it was negotiated and contingent, a means for Lebanese engineers to assert their national leadership and for rural communities to challenge the state. Upon its nominal conclusion, the Litani project drew resources from the hinterland and reinforced a cartography of unequal development that privileged the capital. This materialized inequality provided a basis for rural communities to mobilize into larger political-religious formations and make claims on the state. By putting the Litani at the center of its narrative, my dissertation reexamines the history of modern Lebanon, international development, and interrelations among technology, society, and environment.
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Modern Middle East Intellectual and Cultural History; Political Economy, Technology, and Development; Science, Environment, and Empire
Simona Loi
Institution:
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University (Venice)
Dissertation Title:
Beirut: The Everyday Geographies of Ashura between Religious Intimacy and Affective Geopolitics
Dissertation Abstract:
This research aims at deepening the understanding of the Shiʿa religious rituals in Lebanon and the related urban atmospheres. Specifically, the study focuses on the structure of the ʿĀshūrā’ rites in three central neighbourhoods of Beirut (Khandaq al-Ghamīq, Ḥayy al-Lijā, and Zuqāq al-Balaṭ), and investigates how the everydayness of the ritual practices, the related feelings, emotions and affects, and the religious built environment contribute to create specific and different affective atmospheres. I argue that the latter – far from being confined to the individual sphere – are embedded in the wider geopolitical dimension of Resistance (al-Muqāwama), as expressed by the two main Shiʿa political parties, Ḥarakat Amal and Ḥizbullah, and translated into the everyday people embodied (geopolitical) sensitivities.
Interest in these neighbourhoods has been moved by two reasons. First, each of the three districts has its own (or more than one) ḥusayniyya, i.e., a bespoke sacred space for the ʿĀshūrāʼ celebrations, whereas in other Beirut sectors with important Shiʿa communities the same rituals are held in other, non-bespoke spaces. Second, all three areas before the Civil War (1975-1990) were deeply multi-confessional, and today this peculiarity is indicated by the presence of at least one or more churches (inside their administrative borders), and their proximity to the Jewish quarter. The project will highlight how the religious atmospheres shaped and continue to shape the wider urban space; how, in turn, religious manifestations, geopolitical perceptions and affects are influenced by the specific built environment of ʿĀshūrā’; and, finally, will trace the connections that exist between these everyday embodied practices and the regional geopolitical dynamics, using the innovative concept of affective geopolitics.
PhD Examination Fields:
Human Geography; Anthropology; History of Lebanon; Shi'a Studies
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University (Venice)
Dissertation Title:
Beirut: The Everyday Geographies of Ashura between Religious Intimacy and Affective Geopolitics
Dissertation Abstract:
This research aims at deepening the understanding of the Shiʿa religious rituals in Lebanon and the related urban atmospheres. Specifically, the study focuses on the structure of the ʿĀshūrā’ rites in three central neighbourhoods of Beirut (Khandaq al-Ghamīq, Ḥayy al-Lijā, and Zuqāq al-Balaṭ), and investigates how the everydayness of the ritual practices, the related feelings, emotions and affects, and the religious built environment contribute to create specific and different affective atmospheres. I argue that the latter – far from being confined to the individual sphere – are embedded in the wider geopolitical dimension of Resistance (al-Muqāwama), as expressed by the two main Shiʿa political parties, Ḥarakat Amal and Ḥizbullah, and translated into the everyday people embodied (geopolitical) sensitivities.
Interest in these neighbourhoods has been moved by two reasons. First, each of the three districts has its own (or more than one) ḥusayniyya, i.e., a bespoke sacred space for the ʿĀshūrāʼ celebrations, whereas in other Beirut sectors with important Shiʿa communities the same rituals are held in other, non-bespoke spaces. Second, all three areas before the Civil War (1975-1990) were deeply multi-confessional, and today this peculiarity is indicated by the presence of at least one or more churches (inside their administrative borders), and their proximity to the Jewish quarter. The project will highlight how the religious atmospheres shaped and continue to shape the wider urban space; how, in turn, religious manifestations, geopolitical perceptions and affects are influenced by the specific built environment of ʿĀshūrā’; and, finally, will trace the connections that exist between these everyday embodied practices and the regional geopolitical dynamics, using the innovative concept of affective geopolitics.
PhD Examination Fields:
Human Geography; Anthropology; History of Lebanon; Shi'a Studies
Diala Lteif
Institution:
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Dissertation Title:
A Hundred Years of Refuge: Displacement and the Making of Beirut, Lebanon (1915-2015)
Dissertation Abstract:
With an unprecedented 65.5 million people forcibly displaced around the world, forced migration has today become a reality that is, for many, increasingly permanent. Beirut, Lebanon, has hosted refugees for more than a century, and with the current Syrian crisis has become the city with the largest proportion of refugees in the world. The Lebanese capital thus presents an ideal case for a historical analysis of displacement. With due respect to this historical specificity of Beirut, Lebanon, I propose to study the urban-political experiences of four different displaced communities—Armenian, Palestinian, internally displaced Lebanese, and Syrians—who have been resettled within a specific area of Beirut over a century (1915-2015). My focus will be on the overarching question: how do refugees inhabit their adopted city over time, by claiming their right to the city and questioning in this process the distinction between the categories of refugee and citizen? In doing so, my research aims to: (1) study displacement over an extended period, in contrast to the dominant trend of punctual case studies portraying refuge as temporary; (2) re-examine the refugee versus citizen distinction, with reference to debates on key conceptual categories pertaining to forced migration, including human rights, humanity, and ‘bare life’; and (3) explore the dialectical relationship between refugees and urbanization, an angle often missed by dominant analytical lenses lacking a spatial dimension. By shifting the focus from one event to a continuous analysis, I acknowledge the longevity of displacement and highlight the various political and spatial practices of refugees in the city through time, as they endeavor to make it their home.
PhD Examination Fields:
Middle Eastern Cities; Governing Exile; Refuge and Refugees
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Dissertation Title:
A Hundred Years of Refuge: Displacement and the Making of Beirut, Lebanon (1915-2015)
Dissertation Abstract:
With an unprecedented 65.5 million people forcibly displaced around the world, forced migration has today become a reality that is, for many, increasingly permanent. Beirut, Lebanon, has hosted refugees for more than a century, and with the current Syrian crisis has become the city with the largest proportion of refugees in the world. The Lebanese capital thus presents an ideal case for a historical analysis of displacement. With due respect to this historical specificity of Beirut, Lebanon, I propose to study the urban-political experiences of four different displaced communities—Armenian, Palestinian, internally displaced Lebanese, and Syrians—who have been resettled within a specific area of Beirut over a century (1915-2015). My focus will be on the overarching question: how do refugees inhabit their adopted city over time, by claiming their right to the city and questioning in this process the distinction between the categories of refugee and citizen? In doing so, my research aims to: (1) study displacement over an extended period, in contrast to the dominant trend of punctual case studies portraying refuge as temporary; (2) re-examine the refugee versus citizen distinction, with reference to debates on key conceptual categories pertaining to forced migration, including human rights, humanity, and ‘bare life’; and (3) explore the dialectical relationship between refugees and urbanization, an angle often missed by dominant analytical lenses lacking a spatial dimension. By shifting the focus from one event to a continuous analysis, I acknowledge the longevity of displacement and highlight the various political and spatial practices of refugees in the city through time, as they endeavor to make it their home.
PhD Examination Fields:
Middle Eastern Cities; Governing Exile; Refuge and Refugees
Molly Oringer
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles
Dissertation Title:
Spatial Relations: Post-War Rehabilitation and the Afterlives of Jewish Terrains in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles
Dissertation Title:
Spatial Relations: Post-War Rehabilitation and the Afterlives of Jewish Terrains in Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
China Sajadian
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Dissertation Title:
Agrarian Transformation in a Time of War: Land and Labor Relations in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
The tiny state of Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. Yet, contrary to the dominant image of the deracinated, uprooted refugee encamped in an unfamiliar territory, significant numbers of displaced Syrians have long-standing ties to Lebanon. Focusing on the Syrian-Lebanese borderland region of the Bekaa Valley, this project explores the significance of a refugee crisis that is critically shaped by previous histories of migration. I ask: How do communities long-dependent on temporary migrants transform when the migrants are no longer temporary? Based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in a cluster of agricultural borderland villages, the project will examine how a loss of cross-border mobility for labor migrants throughout the Syrian war has reconfigured agrarian labor relations. In particular, the project analyzes what appears to be a wartime resurgence of sharecropping, which will be situated within a longer historical analysis of agrarian tenure and labor in the region. Combining insights from critical agrarian studies and migration studies, this research recasts the classic “agrarian question” as a “migrant question” in order to develop a broader theory about agrarian transformation and mobility in times of war.
PhD Examination Fields:
Anthropology of Agrarian Transformations; Anthropology of the Middle East
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Dissertation Title:
Agrarian Transformation in a Time of War: Land and Labor Relations in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon
Dissertation Abstract:
The tiny state of Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. Yet, contrary to the dominant image of the deracinated, uprooted refugee encamped in an unfamiliar territory, significant numbers of displaced Syrians have long-standing ties to Lebanon. Focusing on the Syrian-Lebanese borderland region of the Bekaa Valley, this project explores the significance of a refugee crisis that is critically shaped by previous histories of migration. I ask: How do communities long-dependent on temporary migrants transform when the migrants are no longer temporary? Based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in a cluster of agricultural borderland villages, the project will examine how a loss of cross-border mobility for labor migrants throughout the Syrian war has reconfigured agrarian labor relations. In particular, the project analyzes what appears to be a wartime resurgence of sharecropping, which will be situated within a longer historical analysis of agrarian tenure and labor in the region. Combining insights from critical agrarian studies and migration studies, this research recasts the classic “agrarian question” as a “migrant question” in order to develop a broader theory about agrarian transformation and mobility in times of war.
PhD Examination Fields:
Anthropology of Agrarian Transformations; Anthropology of the Middle East
Co-Convener: Ziad Abu-Rish |
Co-Convener: Nadya Sbaiti |
Ziad Abu-Rish is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ohio University, where his undergraduate and graduate teaching center on the political, social, and cultural history of the modern Middle East. Abu-Rish’s research interests focus on state formation, economic development, and social mobilization in the mid-twentieth-century Levant. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Making the Economy, Producing the State: Conflict and Institution Building in Early Independence Lebanon," which explores the changing nature of state management of the economy and the shifting patterns of alliances and conflicts that sought to shape that management. Abu-Rish earned his PhD from the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles, and his MA in Arab Studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He serves on the editorial teams of the Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya e-zine. He also directs the Arab Studies Institute's Lebanon Project. Abu-Rish's publications include "Garbage Politics" (Middle East Report, Winter 2015) and “Protests, Regime Stability, and State Formation in Jordan,” as well as two co-edited volumes: The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012) and Critical Voices On and From the Middle East (Tadween Publishing, 2015).
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Nadya Sbaiti is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She earned her MA in Arab Studies and her PhD in History from Georgetown University and specializes in the social and cultural histories of the modern Middle East. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Pedagogical Constituencies and Communities of Knowledge in Mandate Lebanon,” which examines the central role of education to the formation of multiple national narratives and the production of history in Lebanon under French mandate. Her recent publications include “ A Massacre Without Precedent’”; “‘If the Devil Spoke French’: Strategies of Language and Learning in French Mandate Beirut,” and has written articles that guide researchers through Lebanon’s postwar archival terrain. Additional research interests include spatial manifestations of colonial and national projects; colonial methods of social control through prisons and asylums; the production of history as both discursive and material practice; tourism and heritage; and contemporary popular culture (music, film, game shows, and reality television). Sbaiti has taught introductory surveys of modern Middle Eastern history, courses on women and gender in the Middle East, the history of education, the Middle East and World War I, aspects of colonialism and nationalism, as well as nonwestern urban history. In addition, she is a co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, and served as co-editor of the peer-reviewed Arab Studies Journal.
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