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February
8th, 2005
| Dean
Philip Khoury
How To Understand
Contemporary Syria: One Historians Perspective
Dean Khoury focused on the internal dynamics of the Baathist Asad regime and, in particular, how it
came to power under late Syrian President Hafiz
al Asad and how he managed to hold on to power
for 30 years before his son Bashar's succession.
Dean Khoury's perspective, as always, was that of
a historian. Interplay with Lebanon, Israel, the
United States, and Iraq were also be featured in
the lecture. A 40-minute Q&A session followed drawing the audience's insight
on the Lebanese-Syrian relationship.
 Philip
S. Khoury is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and a member
of the History Faculty. He received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University in 1980 and joined the History
Faculty in 1981. Professor Khoury is a political and
social historian of the Middle East whose research
focuses on urban politics and nationalist movements
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His
publications include Syria and the French Mandate:
The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945
(Princeton University Press, 1987 and 1989), which
received the George Louis Beer Prize of the American
Historical Association, and Urban Notables and Arab
Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920
(Cambridge University Press, 1993 and 2004). He is
also the co-editor of Tribes and State Formation in
the Middle East (University of California Press,
1990), Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-war
Reconstruction (Leiden, 1993), and The Modern Middle
East: A Reader. 2nd Edition. (I.B Tauris, 2004). He
is currently engaged in a study of the impact of the
Second World War on politics and society in the
Middle East. Professor Khoury is a past president of
the Middle East Studies Association of North America
and a trustee of Trinity College, the American
University of Beirut, the Toynbee Prize Foundation,
and the World Peace Foundation, of which he is
chairman. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.
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