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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director's Lecture Series is pleased to present
a history conversation with
Leila Fawaz
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University
Born in the Sudan and raised in Lebanon, Professor Fawaz received a BA and MA in History from the American University of Beirut and an MA and PhD in History from Harvard University. She joined the Tufts faculty in 1979 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1994. She served as Chair of the History Department from 1994 to 1996, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College, and Associate Dean of the Faculty between 1996 and 2001. She was Founding Director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University between 2001 and 2012. She holds a dual appointment as Professor of Diplomacy at The Fletcher School and Professor of History at Tufts University.
A social historian who specializes in the Eastern Mediterranean region, with specific emphasis on the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Professor Fawaz has published Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi (co-editor, the American University in Cairo Press, 2009), Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (co-editor, Columbia University Press, 2002), An Occasion for War: Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860 (I. B. Tauris, 1994 and University of California Press, 1995), State and Society in Lebanon (editor, Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 1991), and Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth Century Beirut (Harvard University Press, 1983). She is currently working on a book on the effect of World War I on the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Contact: Liz Flanagan
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