Book talk: "Unfinished Revolutions: Journeys through the Arab Twentieth Century"

Date and Time

April 17, 2024
05:00PM - 06:30PM EDT

Location

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Andrew Arsan

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Professor of Arab and Global History; Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge University

Andrew Arsan is Professor of Arab and Global History in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. A historian of the modern and contemporary Middle East, he is the author of two books, the prize-winning Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in French West Africa (2014) and Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (2018), a study of post-2005 Lebanon. Andrew’s new book, "Unfinished Revolution: Journeys through the Arab Twentieth Century", a new political and intellectual history of the Arab world centring on changing ideas of freedom, will appear with Basic and Allen Lane in 2025.

Contact: Liz Flanagan