12 December 2017: a friend recently discovered an image of Syrian American U.S. Army translator George Abraham Matook, a figure who plays a major role in chapter 3 of my forthcoming book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Syrian parents, George Matook… Read More
5 August 2017- my review of Maria Narbona, Paulo Pinto, and John Karam’s edited collection, Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA appears in the current issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History. (full text available here). From the review: Despite five… Read More
17 June 2017- my interview with CSPAN3’s American History TV ran today on Syrian migrants in the United States during the First World War. The interview took place at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in April in a series of tapings to commemorate the centenary of… Read More
28 December 2016: this spring I’ll be at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual meeting in New Orleans to join a Roundtable in Arab American History. The session was solicited by OAH’s Program Committee in the interest of incorporating Arab American studies into the organization’s coverage of… Read More
3 November 2016: a new digital sourcebook on the cultural history of World War I includes two Arab American sources that I contributed and introduced. The sourcebook is among the publications of a three year project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) and… Read More
24 January 2016: I gave a talk at the Cultural Encounters in Global Conflict conference on the First World War at Kings College London. My talk, “Becoming ‘Syrian’ on the battlefield: Ottoman emigrant troops on the Western Front” detailed the experience of Syrian recruits in… Read More
