Ph.D. From UC Santa Barbara, 2009
Dissertation title "A History of Ibn Sa'd's Great Book of Strata or Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir."
History of the Medieval Islamic Book, its survival in manuscript form, its social and political agency, its industry, and the "book culture" that surrounded it.
Rise of Islam in the context of late Antiquity; pre-Islamic Arabia and the Near East; Syriac influences on Arabic and Islam.
Modern history of Syria.
Oral history of the Syrian Revolt, March 2011.
