Ussama Makdisi
Ussama Makdisi is a Palestinian American historian.
He is a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley.[1]
From 2012 to 2013, he was a resident fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.[2]
In 2018, he was awarded the Berlin Prize.[3]
Books[edit]
- Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (University of California Press, 2019)
- Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs, 2010)
- Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008)
- The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000)
- co-editor Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2006)