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Alex Jreisat
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Colonialism
Ethnography
Nationalism
State Formation
Translation
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Syria
The Levant
Specialties
Illicit/Informal Trade Between Syria, Lebanon, Jor
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (intermediate)
French (elementary)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2020 | Anthropology and History | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA | 2019 | History | California State University, Los Angeles
BA | 2014 | Arabic | University of California, Los Angeles
BA | 2014 | Anthropology | University of California, Los Angeles
Abstracts
The Adwani Connection: Affective Geographies of Smuggling Across the Jordan River