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Interviews with researchers working on all aspects of Levantine culture and society.
14 FEB 2022 · February 2022
In this interview, CBRL’s Director Carol Palmer speaks to Andrew Arsan about his research on the twentieth century history of the Levant with a focus on the potential for Arab democracy.
About the speaker:
Andrew Arsan is Professor of Arab and Mediterranean History in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s College. A political, cultural, and intellectual historian of the modern Middle East, he is the author of Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (2018) and Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial West Africa (2014), and the editor, with Cyrus Schayegh, of the Routledge Handbook of the History of the History of the Middle East Mandates (2015). He is currently working on a new history of political thought and action in the twentieth-century Arab world, for publication with Allen Lane and Basic Books.
14 FEB 2018 · February 2018
Sarah Tobin is a social anthropologist who focuses on Islam, economic anthropology and displacement/migration in the Middle East and East Africa.
In this Podcast, Dr. Tobin discusses her latest project which looks at everyday life and everyday Islam in the Syrian refugee camps of Za`atari and Azraq. Drawing on this research, she examines questions of sectarianism and identity among Syrian refugees in Jordan.
Interviews with researchers working on all aspects of Levantine culture and society.
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| Author | CBRL |
| Organization | CBRL |
| Categories | Society & Culture |
| Website | cbrl.ac.uk |
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