Sectarianism in the Post-Ottoman Era & the Quest for Coexistence | Ussama Makdisi
In this conversation, we discussed Professor Ussama Makdisi's scholarship on Modern Arab History, and Ottoman History.
Dr. Ussama Makdisi is professor of history and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. In 2009 he was awarded the Carnegie Scholar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Muslim societies and communities, both in the United States and abroad. Makdisi was awarded the Berlin Prize and spent the Spring 2018 semester as a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin. His books include ”Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World”, ”Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001”; and “Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East” (Cornell University Press, 2008), which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Makdisi is also the author of “The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon”, and co-editor of ”Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa” (Indiana University Press, 2006).
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