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
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Book review: Jeffrey Grey’s The War with the Ottoman Empire
2 March 2018: my review of Jeffrey Grey’s 2016 book, The War with the Ottoman Empire, appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Turkish Studies. The book is part of an Oxford series on the Great War in Australian history (full text available here). From the review: Proceeding… Read More
Book Review: Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA in the Journal of American Ethnic History
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
New piece published: “Teaching Migrant and Refugee Histories in the Shadow of Trump” in IEHS Online
27 March 2017: a new brief piece of mine on teaching migration and refugee history appears on IEHS ONLINE, the website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. My Spring 2017 course, Migrants and Refugees in the Middle East, meets Tuesday evenings, and it seems like… Read More
New piece, “What We Can Learn from America’s Other Muslim Ban (Back in 1918),” appears in Tropics of Meta
8 February 2017: Tropics of Meta: Historiography for the Masses has published my brief piece on Donald Trump’s 2017 Executive Order in relationship to the first “Muslim Ban” in American history: Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s Executive Order 2932 (1918). The piece can be read at this link: https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/what-we-can-learn-from-americas-other-muslim-ban-back-in-1918/ From the… Read More
New Web Publication: Arab American sources for Sourcebook on Cultural Exchanges during First World War
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
New article published: “Former Ottomans in the Ranks” at Journal of Global History
10 February 2016: my newest article, Former Ottomans in the ranks: pro-Entente military recruitment among Syrians in the Americas, 1916–18,” has appeared in the March 2016 issue of the Journal of Global History. (For full text, click here). Abstract: “For half a million ‘Syrian’ Ottoman subjects living… Read More
New web piece: “The Other Arab Revolt,” a blog post on the NEH Summer Seminar page, WWI in the Middle East
3 August 2014: I’ve written a brief piece on Syrian American soldiers and the challenges (and rewards!) of writing transnational microhistories for the NEH summer seminar website on WWI in the Middle East. The post, on a soldier named Gabriel Ilyas Ward, can be viewed… Read More
New article published: “Sound Minds in Sounds Bodies” in the International Journal of Middle East Studies
1 April 2014: pleased to announce that the International Journal of Middle East Studies has published my article, “Sound Minds in Sound Bodies: Transnational Philanthropy and Patriotic Masculinity in al-Nadi al-Homsi and Syrian Brazil.” The article appears in a special issue on the Politics of Benevolence, co-edited… Read More
New article published: “Transnational Modes and Media” on the Syrian Diaspora and its Press in WWI in Mashriq & Mahjar
28 February 2013: my first peer-reviewed article has appeared in the journal, Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies. The publication is a new journal put out quarterly by the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies and the History Department at North Carolina State… Read More