Academic Rank

University of Haifa, Department of Middle Eastern History
Senior Lecturer
Research fellow, Truman Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: 2002/3

Offices in University Academic Administration

Offices in the Department of Middle Eastern History
1. Consultant to the B.A program
2. Consultant to the Single Department program

Offices in the University
3. Member of faculty Education Committee

Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University

a. Member of the "Young forum for Humanities and Social Sciences" under The Israeli National Academy for Sciences

b. Organizing International Academic Conferences
1. “Perspectives on the Ottoman Reforms: Istanbul and the Syrian Provinces,” in honor of Professor Butrus Abu-Manneh.
Conducted on May 2002 in the University of Haifa.
2. Conference in honor of Professor Amnon Cohen. Conducted on 8-9 June 2005 in the Hebrew University.

Participation in Scholarly Conferences

a. International Conferences (English)

1. Bilad al-Sham: Processes of Identities and Ideologies from the 18th Century to the End of the Mandatory Period.
Workshop. Conducted in Erlangen (Germany), 28 July-2 August 2000.
My presentation: Khalil Khuri and his Contribution to the Syrian Identity.

2. BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) conference. Conducted in Cambridge (U.K.), July 2000.
My presentation: Merchants and Intelligentsia Interaction in 19th Century Beirut.

3. Conference in honor of Professor Butrus Abu-Manneh. Conducted in the University of Haifa, 3-5 March, 2002.
My presentation: Traditional Versus Modern Historiography: The Syrian Experience in “Perspectives on the Ottoman Reforms:
Istanbul and the Syrian Provinces”.

4. The Ottoman and Trade. Conducted in Cambridge (U.K.), 20-24 March, ?2002.
My presentation: Commerce and Merchants under Amir Bashir II: From Market Town to Commercial Centre.

5. The First World Conference for Middle East History. Conducted in Mainz (Germany), 9-12 September, 2002.
My presentation: Images and Texts as Distributing Identity: The Case of al-Jinan.

6. History of the Press in the Middle East VI Meeting: “The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press”.
Conducted in Nicosia (Cyprus), 19-23 May, 2004.
My presentation: Advertisements and Economic Issues in the Early Beiruti Press: The Case of al-Janna.

7. "Competing Networks: Greek and Other Commercial Houses in the Mediterranean during the Long Nineteenth Century".
To be conducted in University of Haifa, June 2006.
My presentation (tentative): Beiruti Merchants as Cultural and Conceptual Nodes

b. Conferences in Israel (Hebrew)

8. Conference in honor of Professor David Semah. Conducted in the University of Haifa in May 2005.
My presentation (with Dr. Basilius Bawardi): Historical and Literary Aspects in the Journal Hadiqat al-Akhbar 1858-1868.

9. Conference in honor of Professor Amnon Cohen: “The Ottomans in the Land of Israel and the Middle East.”
Conducted in The Hebrew University, 8-9 June 2005.
My presentation: Missionary Writing as a tool for researching the Middle East: The Bliss Family and The Syrian Protestant College.

Colloquium Talks and Other Invited Addresses

1. Invited by SOAS, University of London, London (U.K.), on 28 February, 2000.
My presentation: Towards a Proto-Nationalist Concept of Syria? The Activities of the American Missionaries in 19th Century Levant.

2. Invited by Cambridge University, Cambridge (U.K.), on 21 May, 2000.
My presentation: Towards a Proto-Nationalist Concept of Syria? The Activities of the American Missionaries in 19th Century Levant.

Fellowships

1. Junior Israeli Research Fellowship – St Antony’s College, Oxford, 1999/2000
(for a Post-Doctorate)

2. Truman Institute Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002/3

Publications

A. Ph.D. Dissertation

Name: From Communal to Territorial Identity: The Emergence of “The Concept of Syria” 1831-1881 (Hebrew), University of Haifa,
323 pages, September 1997.
Supervisor: Dr. Butrus Abu-Manneh (Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa)

B. Books

Authored Books
1. The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in 19th Century Beirut. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2005.
277 pages.

Edited Books
2. With Itzchak Weismann (eds.), Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration - Studies in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh.
I. B. Tauris, London, 2005. 240 pages.

C. Articles in Refereed Journals

Published

1. “Novice or Heaven-born Diplomat: Lord Dufferin in Beirut and his Plan for a‘Province of Syria.’” Middle Eastern Studies,
Vol. 36, No. 3, July 2000, pp. 160-
176.

2. “Toward a Proto-Nationalist Concept of Syria - Revisiting the American Presbyterian Missionaries in the Levant.”
Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 41 (2001), no. 2, pp. 1-29.

3. “Mikhail Mishaqa - The First Historian of Modern Syria.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (May 2001),
pp. 67-87.

4. “From the Mission to the Missionary: The Bliss Family and the Syrian Protestant College, 1866-1920.” Die Welt des Islams.
Vol. 45, No. 2 (July 2005), pp. 255-291.

Accepted for Publication

5. “Commerce and Merchants under Amir Bashir II: From Market Town to Commercial Centre.” Oriento Moderno, 24 pp.

6. “Traditional vs. Modern Historiography: The Syrian Case in the 19th Century.” Hamizrah Hehadash [The New East]
(in Hebrew), 19 pp.

7. With Basilius Bawardi, "Between Adab al-Rihlat and "Geo-Literature": The Constructive Narrative Fiction of Salim al-Bustani,"
Middle Eastern Literatures. (equal contribution), 30 pp.

D. Articles or Chapters in Books

Published

8. “Building a Cultural Identity: The Case of Khalil al-Khuri.” In Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann (eds.) From the Syrian
Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon (Beirut, 2004), pp. 27-39.

9. With Basilius Bawardi, ”Ottomanism and Syrian Patriotism in Salim al-Bustani’s Thought.” In Itzchak Weismann and
Fruma Zachs (eds.), Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration - Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh (I.B. Tauris, April 2005),
pp. 111-126. (equal contribution)

10. With Itzchak Weismann, “Introduction.” In Itzchak Weismann and Fruma Zachs (eds.), Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration
- Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh (I.B. Tauris, April 2005), pp. 1-13.

Accepted for Publication

11. “The Beginning of Press Advertising in 19th Century Beirut: Consumption, Consumers and Meanings.” In Gisela Eisal and Martin Strohmeier (eds.) History of the Press in the Middle East: The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press, Forthcoming, 23 pp.

E. Entries in Encyclopedias

*“Mikhail Mishaqa.” In: Encyclopedia of Historians of the Ottoman Empire, Cemal Kafadar, Hakan Karteke and Cornell Fleischer (eds.). Co-Project of Harvard University and the University of Chicago. 2500 words. Submitted May 2005.
http://www.ottomanhistorians.com/