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
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)
“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://www.merip.org/mero/mero050818.
Liora R. Halperin, "Petah Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory," Jewish Social Studies, 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella. "State-Society Relations in the Urban Spheres of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58." In Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, and Fadi Dawood, eds., State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship Under Occupation, Dictatorship, and Democratization. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 50-68. Print.

Middle East

Arbella Bet-Shlimon

Kyle Haddad-Fonda

Liora Halperin

Christopher Tounsel

Joel Thomas Walker