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Sana Tannoury Karam
Arab Council for Social Sciences
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Dr. Sana Tannoury-Karam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History Department at Rice University. She is a historian of the modern Middle East and modern World History, working on the history of the Arab Left during the Mandate period in Lebanon. Dr. Tannoury-Karam has taught courses at Northeastern University and Babson College on the modern Middle East and World History of the 20th century.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Fertile Crescent
Lebanon
Mashreq
Specialties
Modern Middle East
Mashreq
Mandate Syria
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2017 | History | Northeastern University
MA | 2010 | Political Studies | American University of Beirut
BS | 2008 | Economics | Lebanese American University
Abstracts
Gendering the Working Class: Contesting Power in the Lebanese Communist Discourse, 1920-1945 This War is Our War: Communism, Democracy, and Internationalist Nationalism in Lebanon, 1939-1945 The Political Engagement of Intellectuals and the Boundaries of the Public Sphere in Mandate Lebanon Demanding Political Rights, Challenging Democratic Principles: Emily Fares-Ibrahim and the Feminist Struggle for Suffrage in Mandate Lebanon