Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (319) 335-2306
University of Iowa
Department of History
280 Schaeffer Hall
Iowa City
IA
52242
United States
ABOUT
Mériam N. Belli received her PhD in Middle East history from Georgetown University in 2005. Between 2005 and 2008, Mériam Belli taught at Georgetown University; for Pepperdine University's internship program in Washington, DC; and at the history department of MIT, Cambridge, Mass. She joined the History Department at the University of Iowa in the fall of 2008. She specializes in the social and cultural history of the Arab Middle East. She earned a B.A. in classical Arabic, and an M.A. and DEA in Middle East history at INALCO, Paris, France.
Her book, An Incurable Past: Nasser's Egypt Now and Then (University Press of Florida, May c.2013; 2017), explores both the history and vernacular experiences of the 1950s-60s through stories of schooling; war and resistance; and spirituality and religion.
Mériam Belli is presently working on a socio-cultural history of death in a transnational perspective (France, Tunisia, Egypt, and Palestine/Israel) that examines notions of belonging/appartenance through body technologies and the politics of death.
Mériam Belli is in oral historian with a particular interest in cultural and social boundaries, nationalism, colonialism, and mobility/migration within the sphere of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Europe.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Mediterranean Studies
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
State Formation
Cultural Studies
Transnationalism
Colonialism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Mediterranean Countries
Europe
Mashreq
Maghreb
Specialties
Oral Hist
Death
Borderland And Mobility In The Mediterranean
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (native)
German (advanced)
Spanish (elementary)
Hebrew (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2005
| Hist
| Georgetown U
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