Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
38 Kirkland Street
Cambridge
MA
02138
United States
ABOUT
Alexander Henley is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, supported by the UK’s Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW). His research concerns the roles of religious leaders in twentieth-century Lebanon. Particularly focussing on the Maronite Patriarch and Sunni Grand Mufti, this project looks at their respective relations with the confessional state and explores questions of identity in the context of the 1975-90 civil war. Alexander obtained his BA in Theology and MA in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from the University of Durham, UK. He studied Arabic in Syria and Jordan, and has conducted research in Lebanon as an affiliate of the American University of Beirut and Notre Dame University – Louaizeh. He writes occasionally on Lebanon for current affairs publications in the UK, and is a founding editor of the peer-reviewed graduate journal New Middle Eastern Studies, published under the auspices of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
History Of Religion
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Christian Studies
Islamic Studies
Modernization
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
The Levant
Specialties
Lebanese Civil War
Official Religious Leadership
Critical Religion Theory
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (elementary)
English (native)
Education
MA
| 2007
| Inst for ME & Islamic Stds
| University of Durham
BA
| 2006
| Department of Theology & Religion
| University of Durham
Abstracts
Attachment to the State among Religious Authorities in Civil War Lebanon
