Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History at Rice University, Houston. His major publications include Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relatiosn, 1820 – 2001 (Public Affairs, 2010) and Artillery of heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008). He is widely known for his groundbreaking study The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000). In 2012/13, he was a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
EUME Lecture
Wed 02 Oct 2013 | 16:00–18:00
Wed 02 Oct 2013 | 16:00–18:00
Coexistence in an Age of Genocide: The Arab Renaissance in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ussama Makdisi (Rice University / Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2012/13)
Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin