Ussama Makdisi

Bio:

Ussama Makdisi is professor of Middle East history at Rice University.

Articles by this Author


Once More Into the Breach	*Rashid Khalidi, Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East* (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009) Patrick Tyler, A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East (London: Portobello Books, 2009)...**
Rediscovering Palestine	*Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)**	MER211
The Modernity of Sectarianism in Lebanon	On February 15, 1996, 13 squatters were killed in Beirut when the building they were living in was brought down by demolition workers for Solidere, Lebanon’s reconstruction and development company. Solidere, a brainchild of Prime Minister...	MER200