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My dissertation focuses on the legal recognition of the Shi ci sect by the Mandate state as a pivotal point in generating increased sectarian awareness, particularly as it related to the domain of the family. I analyze the impact this had on the space of the family during the Fr…

The growth of sectarianism in the mid-nineteenth century, and its institutionalization in the early twentieth, made religious affiliation the dominant mode of organizing society and politics in Lebanon. While the National Pact of 1943, an unwritten agreement enumerating the sect…

This dissertation examines the career of the Arab Academy of Science in Damascus roughly over its first formative decade, from 1919 to 1930. It situates the Academy’s work in relation to concerns about language modernization characteristic of the Nahda, or Modern Arab Renaissanc…

This research questions and challenges the assumptions made about Lebanese Maronite Christians and their relation with the establishment of the State of Greater Lebanon. It focuses on three overlapping aspects of their identity - national, linguistic and religious - in order to …