September 10, 2020: this month, the Arab American National Museum announced the recipients of their annual book awards and Between the Ottomans and the Entente is among 2020’s honorees! The AANM’s program honors books written by and about Arab Americans, generating greater awareness of Arab… Read More
July 9 2020: this week I’m posting threads on the Syrian and Lebanese mahjar over at the historical twitter account: @Tweetistorian. Created by Khodadad Rezakhan and Torsten Wollina in 2019, the Tweetistorian is a roving account that a new historian takes over every Monday. In… Read More
May 19 2020: this month I had an event with the UC Davis History Club on my book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente. We took the event online in a “hybrid” fashion: the talk went on Youtube, and then the History Club hosted a… Read More
April 12 2020: this Spring I teamed up with co-editors Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo to establish a brand new interdisciplinary book series on migration and refugees in the modern Middle East, and I hope you will consider us for your projects of share the… Read More
December 10, 2019: more big news! Between the Ottomans and the Entente has been awarded the Syrian Studies Association’s 2019 Book Prize. Awarded annually for over fifteen years, the SSA awards recognize scholars whose recent work has made a distinguished contribution to the field of… Read More
November 12, 2019: big news this week! Between the Ottomans and Entente has won the 2019 Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies! Give by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at NC State, the Khayrallah Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly studies focusing on Middle East migration and diasporas.… Read More
August 23 2019: this week Jadaliyya excerpted a portion of Between the Ottomans and the Entente together with a brief interview about the project for their “New Texts Out Now” series. The full interview can be viewed at this link: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/39876/Stacy-D-Fahrenthold,-Between-the-Ottomans-and-the-Entente-The-First-World-War-in-the-Syrian-and-Lebanese-Diaspora,-1908-1925-New-Texts-Out-Now From the piece: This… Read More
June 21 2019: this week, New Books Network featured Between the Ottomans and the Entente on their Middle East Studies podcast. Host Joshua Donovan and I discuss the book’s contributions to the fields of migration studies and new histories of the First World War, as… Read More
June 4 2019: a new piece I wrote for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia went live this week, on labor migrants from Ottoman Syria, Mount Lebanon, and Palestine to the Americas. The piece sums up the state of the field in mahjar studies for an introductory… Read More
May 10, 2019- I learned this week that Between the Ottomans and the Entente received its first press review! The book was featured on The New Arab/ al-Araby al-Jadid’s book club section, where it was reviewed by Usman Butt. From the review: The book opens… Read More
