Contact
Secondary Phone: (313) 583-6520
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Social Sciences. Arab Am. Studies
4901 Evergreen Road, 1100 SSB
Dearborn
MI
48128
United States
ABOUT
Associate Professor of History. University of Michigan, Dearborn.
Recent Publication, "The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship" (Austin: U. Texas, 2014) Owns sizable archival collection from the turn of the twentieth century (1876-1967). The papers describe contacts between immigrant intellectuals and political advocates and luminaries in Cairo, Jerusalem and Beirut. Among the correspondents are Mikhail Naimy, Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, Sultan Al-Atrash, Nasim Saiba'a, Muhammad Jamil Beyhum, Ameen Al-Rihani among others. Research interests include representations of Near Eastern politics and political developments among diaspora communities in the Americas.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Ethnic American Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Fertile Crescent
Islamic World
Specialties
Near East And Islam
Translation And Manuscripts. Arabic
Migration. Study Of Immigrants
Languages
Arabic (native)
German (advanced)
English (native)
Education
DPhil
| 2009
| History
| Wayne State
Abstracts
Orientalist Fidelity and Arab Syrian Awakening: The Paradox of Modernity and American Protestantism in Nineteenth Century Levant
Locating the Arab in Arab American Studies
