Middle East

Related Faculty

Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Associate Professor
Williams Family Endowed Professor in History
Kyle Haddad-Fonda
Lecturer Part-Time
Liora Halperin
Professor
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies
Christopher Tounsel
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Director, African Studies Program
Walker Family Endowed Professor in History
Joel Thomas Walker
Associate Professor

Latest News

In Memoriam: Jere Bacharach
(April 13, 2023)
History Faculty Hosts an Abundance of Book Launches
(November 11, 2019)
Linda Nash Awarded NEH Grant
(February 16, 2017)
Op-Ed on the Fall of Kirkuk to Kurdish Forces
(June 16, 2014)
Prof. Arbella Bet-Shlimon awarded best dissertation prize
(March 10, 2014)

Related Research

Christopher Tounsel, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).
Letteney, Mark, and Simcha Gross. 2022. “Reconsidering the Earliest Synagogue in Yemen.” Studies in Late Antiquity 6 (4): 627–50.
Liora R. Halperin, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford University Press, 2021)
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella. "Kirkuk as a Crucible: Sargon Boulus and the Question of Pluralism in Northern Iraq." Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 14, no. 1-2 (2020): 127–133.
“Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine,” in Heleen Murre-van den Berg et al., Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 228-256.
“Forging beginnings: Commemorative cultures and the politics of the “First Aliyah” Journal of Israeli History 38:1 (2020) Special Issue on Beginnings and Endings: Narration and Emplotment in the History of Zionism and the State of Israel, 53-76.
Liora R. Halperin, "Trading Secrets: Constructions and Contexts of Two Middle Eastern Jewish Guards in the Early Petah Tikva Agricultural Colony," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2019): 1-22.
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella. City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella. "Preservation or Plunder? The ISIS Files and a History of Heritage Removal in Iraq." Middle East Report Online, 8 May 2018, https://merip.org/2018/05/preservation-or-plunder-the-isis-files-and-a-history-of-heritage-removal-in-iraq/.
Liora R. Halperin, "Petah Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory," Jewish Social Studies, 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28

Middle East

Arbella Bet-Shlimon

Kyle Haddad-Fonda

Liora Halperin

Christopher Tounsel

Joel Thomas Walker