Nadia Maria El Cheikh

Department of History and Archaeology

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American University of Beirut

P. O. Box 11-0236

Beirut, Lebanon

Tel: (961-1) 350 000, ext. 3800

E-Mail: nmcheikh@aub.edu.lb

Education

Harvard University.

Ph.D. degree in History and Middle Eastern Studies, 1992.

American University of Beirut.

B.A. with distinction in History and Archaeology, 1985.

Positions

American University of Beirut

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2016--

Interim Associate Provost, 2015-6.

Chair of the Department of History and Archaeology, 2013-2015.

Professor, 2006.

Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, 2000-4,

2006-2009.

Associate Professor, 2000-2006.

Assistant Professor, 1992-3 and 1994-2000.

Harvard University Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies,

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,

January-June, 2007.

Arab Women Center for Training and Research (Tunis) & International Labor

Office (Geneva)

Research Officer, 1993-4.

Amherst College

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1991-2.

Harvard University

Teaching Fellow, 1988-1991.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

2015 Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press.

Reviewed in:

The American Historical Review 122 (April 2017), 606–607 (Denise A. Spellberg)

Al-Hayat, 8/9/2017 (Hazem Saghiyeh]

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80 (2017), 136-137

(Remke Kruk)

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 13 (2017),132-134 (Aisha Geissinger)

Al-Hayat, 4/12/2105 (Bilal Orfali)

2013 Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court. Formal and Informal Politics in

the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-932). Co-authored with Maaike van

Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Hugh Kennedy and Letizia Osti, Leiden: Brill.

Reviewed in:

Quaderni di Studi Arabi, Nuova Serie, 12/2017, 229-232 (Maria Giovanna Stasolla)

Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, (Mathieu Tillier)

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 2014, 460-463 (Saheed Ahmad Rufai)

Arabica 61(2014), 625-629 (Eugenie Rebillard)

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77(2014), 74-576 (Eric Hanne)

Ilahiyat Studies: A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies 8 (2017), 281-284 (Halil

Ibrahim Hancabay)

2004 Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs. Cambridge MA: Harvard Middle Eastern

Monographs.

Trans. to Turkish by Mehmet Morali: Araplarin gozuyle Bizans. Istanbul: Alfa, 2012.

Trans. to Greek by Nikos Kelermenos. Athens: Enallaktikes Ekdoseis, 2013.

Reviewed in:

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 12/19/2004 (Kevin van Bladel)

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 39(2005), 197-100 (Claudia Rapp)

Mediterranean Historical Review 29(2005), 251-254 (Abed El-Rahman Tayyara)

Journal of the American Oriental Society 125(2005), 107-110 (Niall Christie)

Speculum 82(2007), 179-181 (Joel Thomas Walker)

Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 7(2005), 262-265 (A. Cameron)

Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 31(2006), 356-358 (R. G. Hoyland)

Byzantinische Zeitschift 10(2007), 202-206 (Maria Mavroudi)

Edited Volumes

2016 Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Lina Choueiri and Bilal Orfali, One Hundred and

Fifty, Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2016.

2011 Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Shaun O’ Sullivan (ed.), Byzantium in Early

Islamic Syria: Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the American university

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of Beirut and the University of Balamand, June 18-19, 2007. Beirut: American

University of Beirut.

2002 Co-editor of al-Nisa’ al-arabiyyat fi al-ishrinat: hudur wa hawiyya (Beirut).

Published Articles

2017 “Conversation as Performance: Adab al-Muhadatha at Court,” In the

Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the pre Modern Middle East,

ed. Maurice Pomerantz (New York: New York University Press), 84-99.

2017 “Guarding the Harem, Protecting the State: Eunuchs in a

Fourth/Tenth-Century Abbasid Court,” Celibate and Childless, Men in

Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World, ed. Almut

Höfert et al (Routledge: London and New York), 56-78.

2017 “Sieges and Conquests of Constantinople in Arab Muslim Sources,”

Byzantion’dan Constantinopolis’e Istanbul Kustamarali, ed. Turhan Kacar

and Murat Arslan (Istanbul: Baski), 229-241.

2016 “Kamal al-Salibi fi al-Tarikh al-Islami fi al-Usur al-Wusta,” Kamal al-

Salibi: al-Insan wa al-Mu’arrikh (1929-2011) (Beirut: Arab Center for

Research and Policy Studies, 2016), 109-124.

2016 Co-authored with Samar Mikati, “Women at AUB: The Beginnings, 1905-

1947 (A Photo Essay), One Hundred and Fifty, ed. Nadia Maria El Cheikh,

Lina Choueiri and Bilal Orfali (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press),

63-82.

2014 “The Institutionalization of Abbasid Ceremonial,” Diverging Paths? The

Shapes of Power and Institutions in Medieval Christendom and Islam, ed.

John Hudson and Ana Rodriguez (Leiden and Boston: Brill), 351-370.

2013 “An Abbasid Caliphal Family,” Approaches to the Byzantine Family, ed.

Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher (Surrey: Ashgate), 327-344.

2012 “The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts,” The Oxford History of Historical

Writing, vol.2, 600-1400, ed. Sarah Foot and Chase Robinson (London:

Oxford University Press), 517-538.

2012 “Ibn Khaldun, a Late Historian of Byzantium,” Knotenpunkt Byzanz:

Wissensformen und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen, ed. Andreas Speer and

Philip Steinkruger (Miscellanea Mediaevalia no. 36) (Berlin and Boston: De

Gruyter), 534-548.

2011 “The Conversion of Constantine the Great: A Reading of Arabic-Muslim

Sources,” Journal of Turkish Studies In Memoria Angeliki Laiou 36(2011),

69-83.

2011 “The Tenth Century Byzantine Revival: The Muslim Literary Reaction,”

Byzantium in Early Islamic Syria, ed. Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Shaun O

Sullivan (Beirut), 147-160.

2011 “To Be a Prince in the Fourth/Tenth Century Abbasid Court,” Royal

Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective, ed. Jeroen

Duindam, Tulay Artan, and Metin Kunt (Leiden: Brill), 199-216.

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2011 “Court and Courtiers: A Preliminary Investigation of Abbasid

Terminology,” Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth

Centuries, ed. Albrecht Fuess and Jan-Peter Hartung (New York: Routledge),

80-90.

2010 “The Gendering of ‘Death’ in Kitab al-‘Iqd al-Farid”, al-Qantara vol.31,

411-436.

2010 “The Court of al-Muqtadir: Its Space and Its Occupants,” Abbasid Studies

II: Occasional Paper of the School of ‘Abbasid Studies, Leuven 28 June-1

July, 2004, ed. John Nawas (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, no. 177).

2010 “Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth/Tenth

Century,” Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces, ed.

Marilyn Booth (Durham and London: Duke University Press).

2010 “Ammuriyya,” and “Byzantium” Encyclopedia of Islam, third edition

(Brill, Leiden).

2007 “Observations on Women's Education in Medieval Islamic Societies,”

Enfance et jeunesse dans le monde musulman, ed. Francois Georgeon and

Klaus Kreiser (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose), 57-72.

2007 “Adab Literature: 9th to 13th Century,” Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic

Cultures, vol. 6.

2006 co-author with Farid S. Haddad and Sami Haddad, “The Decrees Sent by the

Mamalik to the Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem (713/1313-911/1506):

Further Light on the Orthodox Community in Jerusalem during the

Mamluk Period,” in Al-Bustan, ed. Farid S. Haddad (Paradise valley, AZ:

The Sami Haddad Memorial Library), 375-454.

2005 “Re-visiting the Abbasid Harems,” Journal of Middle East Women's

Studies, vol.1 #3, 1-19.

2005 “Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs at the Court of al-Muqtadir,” The Journal

of the Social and Economic History of the Orient vol. 48, 234-252.

2004 “Byzantine Leaders in Arabic-Muslim Texts,” Elites Old and New in the

Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, ed. John Haldon and Lawrence I.

Conrad (Princeton: Darwin Press, Inc.), 109-131.

2004 “Gender and Politics: The Harem of al-Muqtadir,” in Gender in the Early

Medieval World: East and West, 300-900, ed. L. Brubaker and Julia Smith

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 147-161.

2004 “Empires: Byzantine,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (New

York: Macmillan Reference USA), vol. 1, 210-211.

2003 “The Qahramana in the Abbasid Court: Position and Functions,” Studia

Islamica, vol. 97, 41-55.

2003 “Mourning and the Role of the Na’iha,” Identidades Marginales, ed.

Cristina de la Puente (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones

Cientificas), 395-412.

2003 “Women/Gender in Medieval Islamic Societies: Trends and Directions,”

in Sherifa Zuhur, ed. Women and Gender in the Middle East

and the Islamic World Today. University of California Press/University of

California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, Edited Volume

#4. http://repositories.cdlib.org/uciaspubs/editedvolumes/4

2002 “In Search for the Ideal Spouse,” Journal of the Economic and Social

History of the Orient, vol. 45, 179-196.

Translated into Arabic: “Bahthan an sharik al-hayat al-mithali,” Tiba

3(2003), 77-99.

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2002 “Byzantines: Exegetical Explanations,” “Immunity,” and “Iraq,”

Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Leiden: Brill),

vol.1, 266-269 and vol. 2, 504-505 and 559-561.

2002 “Women’s History: A Study of al-Tanukhi,” Writing the Feminine: Women

in Arab Sources, ed. Manuela Marin and Randi Deguilhem (London and New

York: I. B. Tauris), 129-148.

2001 “Byzantium through the Islamic Prism: Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries,” The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, ed.

Angeliki Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (Washington: Dumbarton Oaks),

pp. 53-69. Translated into Spanish by Damian Rodriguez del Carlo: “Bizancio

a través del prisma islamico de los siglos XII y XIII.” [En Memoria de

Angel Eduardo Rodriguez, 1940-2004].

1999 “Muhammad and Heraclius: A Study in Legitimacy,” Studia Islamica, vol.

89, 5-21.

1999 “The Contribution of Christian Arab Historians to Muslim

Historiography on Byzantium,” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-

Faith Studies vol. 1, 45-60.

1999 “Constantinople Through Arab Eyes: A Mythology,” Myths, Historical

Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature: Towards a New

Hermeneutic Approach, ed. Angelica Neuwirth et al (Orient Institute: Beirut),

521-537.

1998 “Surat al-Rum: A Study of the Exegetical Literature,” Journal of the

American Oriental Society, vol. 118, 356-364.

1998 “The 1998 Civil Marriage Proposal in Lebanon: The Reaction of the

Muslim Communities,” The Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law

5(1998-1999), 147-161. Translated into Arabic: “Rudud al-fi’l ala mashru’

qanun al-ahwal al-shakhsiyya al-madani fi lubnan,” in Abhath mu’tamar

mi’at am ala tahrir al-mar’a, ed. Jabir Asfur (Cairo, 1999), vol. 2, 267-273.

1997 “Describing the Other to Get at the Self: Byzantine Women in Arabic

Sources (8th-11th Centuries),” Journal of the Economic and Social History

of the Orient, vol. 40, 239-250. Translated into Arabic: “al-Sila bayna al-

akhar wa al-dhat: al-mar’a al-byzantiyya fi al-masadir al-islamiyya,” in

Zaman al-nisa’ wa al-dhakira al-badila, ed. Huda al-Sadda et al (Cairo,

1998), 81-88.

1996 “An Ambivalent Image: Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs,” Cairo Papers

in Social Science, vol. 19, 122-135.

1995 Co-contributor to Arab Women Bibliography: A Study Conducted in Eight

Countries, published by the Center of Arab Women for Training and

Research (Tunis, two volumes).

1994 “Rum in Arabic Literature,” Encyclopedia of Islam, New Edition, (Leiden,

Brill), vol. VIII, 601-602.

Articles in Press

“Violence against Women in the Early Islamic Period,” The Cambridge

World History of Violence Volume II: The Medieval Era, ed. Richard Kaeuper

et al (Cambridge University Press).

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“Divorce: A View from Adab,” Sex and Marriage in the Medieval Islamic

World: Women, Family and Love (I. B. Tauris 2019).

Reports

Lebanese Women Bibliography: 1995-2001, for the Center of Arab Women

for Training and Research (Tunis, unpublished)

Book Reviews

Thomas Sizgorich, Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in

Christianity and Islam (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)

in Al-Abhath 60-61(2012-2013), 192-195.

Kecia Ali, Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (Cambridge: Harvard

University Press, 2010), in Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies

(JMEWS), Volume 8 (2012), no. 1.

James Lindsay, Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Westport and

London: Greenwood Press, 2005), in Journal of the American Oriental

Society, vol. 130.4

Walter Kaegi, Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2003), in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 67(2008), 152-

154.

Nikki R. Keddie, Women in the Middle East: Past and Present (Princeton and

Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), in al-Ra’ida, vol. 118-119, 90-91.

Asma Afsaruddin, Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse

onLegitimate Leadership. (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and

Texts, 36.) (Leiden, Boston, and Cologne: Brill, 2002), in Speculum: A

Journal of Medieval Studies 8(2006), pp.797-8.

G. R. Hawting, The Idea of idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From

Polemic to History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000),in

Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 2(2000), 190-193.

D. A. Spellberg, Politics, Gender and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha

bint Abi Bakr (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), in Bulletin of the

Royal Institute for inter-Faith Studies 2(2000), pp. 211-214.

Averil Cameron (ed.), The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States,

Resources and Armies (Princeton, 1995), in Journal of the American Oriental

Society 117.4 (1997), 770-771.

Peter Pentz, The Invisible Conquest: The Ontogenesis of Sixth and Seventh

Century Syria (Copenhagen, 1992) in Berytus XLI (1993-4), 226-7.

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LECTURES

Invited National and International Talks

“Remembering (re-reading) the Battle of Uhud,” in conference on

Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity,

Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, Nantes, May, 2017.

“Book presentation of Women, Islam and Abbasid Identity,” Institute of

Advanced Studies, Nantes, May, 2017.

“Doing Comparative Work on Abbasid and Byzantine History: Some

Examples,” in Conference on Greek and Arabic in the Middle Ages,

University of Athens, June 2016.

“Book presentation of Women, Islam and Abbasid Identity,” Orient Institut,

Beirut, April 2016.

“The Emergence of Islam in its Pre-Islamic and Byzantine Contexts,” Agha Khan University, ISMC, Istanbul, March, 2016.

“Staging Grief: Female Lamenters in Early Islam,” conference on Gender

and Status Competition in Premodern Societies, Umea Group for Premodern

Studies at Umea University, Sweeden, November 2015. [Tele Conference].

“Writing ‘Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs’,” Athens, October 2014.

“Ibn Khaldun on Byzantium,” Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, October,

2014.

“Guarding the Harem, Protecting the State: The Roles of Eunuchs in a

Fourth/Tenth Century Abbasid Court,” University of Zurich, August 2013.

“Conversation as Performance: Adab al-Muhadatha at Court,” NYU Abu

Dhabi, February, 2012.

“The Institutionalization of Abbasid Ceremonial,” Workshop II on

Diverging Paths, the Shapes of Power and institutions in the Medieval

Christian and Islamic World Madrid, July, 2011.

“The Other Woman Within: The Heretical Qaramita,” in conference on

Les communautés religieuses dans le Bilad al-Sham, Université Saint Joseph,

Beirut, November, 2010.

“Ibn Khaldun, a Late Historian of Byzantium,” in conference on

Intersection Byzantium, Thomas Institute, University of Cologne, September,

2010.

“Ceremonial at the Abbasid and Byzantine Courts,” in Workshop I on

Diverging Paths, the Shapes of Power and institutions in the Medieval

Christian and Islamic World, Madrid, June, 2010.

“The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts: Sources and Comparative

Institutional Models,” University of California, Berkeley, April, 2009.

“Byzantine Women: A Reading of Abbasid Texts,” University of Cyprus,

Nicosia, November, 2008.

“The Abbasid Court: A Study of the Early Fourth/Tenth Century,”

conference on Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Politics and Patronage

(7th– 19th Centuries), July, 2007, Gotha, Germany.

“Gendering Death in Kitab al-Iqd al-farid,” Director’s Lecture Series,

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, April, 2007. An

earlier version was presented at the University of Pennsylvania, March, 2007.

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“Bahthan an sharikh al-hayat al-mithali: qira’a fi ‘Uyun al-Akhbar wa

al-‘Iqd al-farid,” Harvard University, April, 2007.

“Re-visiting the Abbasid Harem,” in Workshop on Gender and Islamicate

History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September, 2005.

“Writing Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs: Problems, Methodologies,

Conclusions,” Université St. Joseph, Beirut, January, 2005.

Arabs, Byzantines, and Franks: Shifting Representations,” Conference on

Le Bilad al-Sham face aux mondes extérieurs, Table Ronde a l’IFPO/IFEAD,

Damascus, February, 2005.

“Doing Middle Eastern History: A Local Perspective?” Harvard

University, October, 2004.

The Abbasid Harem in Tenth Century Baghdad,” New York University,

Global Affair’s International Visitors Program, New York, March, 2004.

“Gendered and Sexualized Knowledge Production: The Uses of Adab,” Gendered Bodies, Transnational Politics: Modernities Reconsidered, Cairo,

December, 2003.

“Ibn Khaldun on Byzantium and the Franks,” Perspectives on Ibn

Khaldun and His Times, Harvard University, May, 2002.

“Research on Lebanese Women: Trends and Methods,” Institute for

Gender and Women’s Studies, The American University in Cairo, April,

2002.

“Mourning and the Role of the Na’iha,” conference on Marginality in

Medieval Islamic Culture, Madrid, October, 2001.

“Women/Gender in Medieval Islamic Societies: Trends and Directions,”

Women and Gender in the Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Assessment of the

State of Theory and Research, Bellagio, Italy, August, 2001.

“Adab Texts : On Women and Marriage,” Oxford University, June, 2000.

“Rudud al-fi’l ala mashru’ qanun al-ahwal al-shakhsiyya al-madani fi

lubnan,” Mu’tamar mi’at am ala tahrir al-mar’a, Cairo, October, 1999.

“The Women's Movement in Lebanon,” Middleburry College, July, 1998.

“The Contribution of Christian Arab Historians to Muslim

Historiography on Byzantium”, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies,

Amman, August, 1997

“Byzantium through the Islamic Prism: 12th-13th Centuries,” Dumbarton

Oaks, Washington D.C., May, 1997.

“Constantinople through Arab Eyes: A Mythology,” Orient Institute,

Beirut, June, 1996.

Conference and Workshop Papers

“Women, Sexuality, and the Making of Heretics: The Example of the

Qaramita,” School of Abbasid Studies, Istanbul, August, 2014.

“Hind bint ‘Utba: Defining “Other Times,” School of Abbasid Studies ,

Exeter, July, 2012.

“A Caliph and his Family,” International Medieval Congress Leeds, UK,

July, 2009.

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“To Be a Prince in the Fourth/Tenth Century Abbasid Court,” School of

‘Abbasid Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge, July, 2008.

“The Tenth Century Byzantine Revival: the Muslim Reaction,” at

conference on Byzantium in Early Islamic Syria, American University of

Beirut, June, 2007.

“Guardians, Masters of Ceremonials, and Political Actors: Chamberlains

in the Fourth/Tenth Century Abbasid Court,” School of ‘Abbasid Studies,

St. Andrews University, Scotland, July, 2006.

“The Court of al-Muqtadir: Its Space and its Occupants,” School of

‘Abbasid Studies, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, July, 2004.

“Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs at the Court of al-Muqtadir,” Middle East

Studies Association Conference, Washington, November, 2002.

“The Qahramana in the Abbasid Court: Position and Functions,” Middle

East Studies Association Conference, San Fransisco, November, 2001.

“Women and Politics: the Harem of Umm al-Muqtadir,” Middle East

Studies Association Conference, Orlando, November. 2000.

“Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih: A Women's Profile,” CBR, American University of

Beirut, 1999.

“Byzantine Leaders in Arabic-Muslim Texts,” Late Antiquity and Early

Islam Workshop (VIth), Univ. of Birmingham, April, 1999.

“The 1998 Civil Marriage Proposal in Lebanon: The Reaction of the

Muslim Communities,” conference on The Islamic Marriage, Harvard Law

School, Cambridge, January, 1999.

“Women's Education in Medieval Times: A Reappraisal,” European

Science Foundation's Education and the Individual in Islamic Societies,

Salamanca, October, 1998.

“Al-mar'a al-byzantiyya fi al-masadir al-islamiyya,” at conference on

Reading History from the Women's Point of View, Cairo, November, 1996.

“Imagining Byzantium: Methodological and Conceptual Problems,” American University of Beirut, November, 1995.

“Rum in Qur'an Exegesis,” Middle East Studies Association Conference,

Washington, December, 1995.

“Describing the Other to Get at the Self: Byzantine Women in Arabic

Literature,” Middle East Studies Association Conference, Arizona,

November, 1994.

“Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs,” Lebanese American University, Public

Lecture Series, May, 1993.

“Reflections of Contrasting Times: Arab Views of Two Byzantine

Emperors,” Five-College Near East Seminar, Smith College, October, 1991.

“Social Life and Customs of the Middle East,” Summer Workshops of

Harvard Teaching Resource Center, July 11, 1990.

Honors and Awards

University of Texas (Austin): International Office Faculty Fellow, 2013-14

(Declined).

University of California, Los Angeles: Visiting Scholar with the Center for

Near Eastern Studies, November 2004.

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New York University, Global Affair’s International Visitors Program Grant

(The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality), March 21-April 3, 2004.

University of California, Los Angeles: Visiting Scholar with the Center for

the Study of Women, July, 2003.

Harvard University: Visiting Scholar at Center for Middle Eastern Studies,

July-August, 1998.

American University of Beirut

o The Mellon Summer Research Fellowship: Summer, 1995; Summer,

1996; and Summer, 1999.

o University Research Board Short-term Faculty Development

Grant: 1994, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014.

o University Research Board Long-term Faculty Development Grant:

1998, and 2003.

Harvard University: Harvard Scholarship, 1986-1992.

American University of Beirut: Dean's Honor's list all semesters and

scholarships for academic achievement, 1983-5.

Professional Affiliations

Member of the Middle East Studies Association of America.

Member of the School of Abbasid Studies

Member of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies

Member of the American Oriental Society

Member of the Middle East Medievalists.

Editorial Positions in Journals and Academic Series

Member of the editorial board of al-Usur al-Wusta, 2015—

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Abbasid Studies (JAS),

2013—

Member of the editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Middle East

Women's Studies, September, 2004—

Member of the Advisory Board of the journal al-Qantara, 2010—

Member of the Advisory Board of Estudios Arabes e Islamicos

Monografias, Madrid, 2005—

Member of the International Advisory Board of the Library of Arabic

Literature (NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi), 2010-2015.

Reviewer for: Journal of Abbasid Studies, Journal of the Economic and

Social History of the Orient; Journal of the American Oriental Society,

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, al-Qantara, Dumbarton Oaks

Papers, Anuario de Estudios Medievales and al-Abhath.

Reviewer of book proposals for Cambridge University Press, Princeton

University, University of Pennsylvania Press and Routledge.

Academic Service

Discussant at conference on Books in Motion, AUB, May 2016.

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Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for

Middle Eastern Studies, 2006—

Co-organizer of conference: AUB One Century and a Half, May 2013.

Participant at workshop on Arab Thought at the Crossroads of World

Civilization, Amman, September, 2011.

Co-organizer of the conference Orientalism and its Critics, AUB, June 1,

2009.

Co-organizer with the University of Balmand of the conference Byzantium in

Early Islamic Syria, AUB, June, 2007.

Member of the board of the Centre de documentation et de recherches

arabes-Chretiennes (Université Saint-Joseph), 1999-2006.

Panel chair at the conference America in the Middle East, the Middle East

in America, AUB, December, 2005.

Panel Chair at the conference Pre-Islamic Arabia, AUB, December, 2005.

Main participant at the workshop “Collaborative possibilities on gender and

sexuality studies, NYU and AUB,” New York University, March 25, 2004.

Organizer of the AUB’s Center of Arab and Middle Eastern Studies

Lectures Series, 2000-2004.

Book Review Editor of the journal al-Abhath , 1996-2003.

Organizer of Conference entitled, “Models of Universities for the Arab

World,” AUB, October 23-24, 2003

Co-Organizer of the Women and Gender Studies Collaborative Initiative

Workshop, Lebanese American University, September 13-14, 2002.

Co-Organizer of conference entitled: “Arab Women in the 1920’s:

Changing Patterns of Life and Identity,” AUBeirut, May, 2001.

Member of the Board of Editors and contributor to Al-Raida (The Quarterly

magazine of the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, LAU)

1994-2001.

Member of the Board of the German Catholic Academic Exchange Service

(KAAD), 1997-9.

Panel chair at the conference on Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon, AUB,

March, 1997.

Participant at the “Encounter of Arab Women Researchers,” Bhirsaf

(Lebanon), 25 July, 1996.

Organizer of the workshop “The Women's Movement: The Second Wave”

(Lebanon) Aug 15-16, 1995.

Panel chair at the conference on The Environment and Sustainable

Development, Beirut, December 13, 1994.

Organizer of the Film series “The Arab World: Women and Cinema,”

Amherst College and Smith College, 1992.

Organizer of the Middle East Lecture Series at the University of

Massachusetts at Amherst, Spring, 1992.

Organizer of the Harvard University Arabic Lecture Series, 1990-1.

List of courses recently taught (AUB)

The Abbasid Court, undergraduate.

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Women and Gender in Classical Islamic Societies, undergraduate.

Byzantine Empire and Civilization I and II, undergraduate.

Islamic History: Origins and Empire, 600-750, undergraduate.

The Rise and Fall of the Abbasids, undergraduate.

Social and Intellectual History of the Arabs I and II Graduate.

Arab Historians I and II

Service to the University (AUB)

Member of the Tenure Committee, 2011-2015.

Volunteer in student elections, 1999-2014.

Member of the University Research Board, 2014.

Member of a promotion committee (Department of Arabic and Near Eastern

Languages), 2013-4.

Member of the CAMES Steering Committee, 2011-2014.

Member of the Arts and Humanities Initiative Committee, 2012-13.

Member of the Islamic Studies Committee, 2010-2012.

Member of the Search committee for early modern literature in the

English Department, 2011-12.

Member of the Search Committee for the Edward Said Chair in American

Studies, 2011-12.

Member of the Book Exhibition Committee, 2011.

Member of the Extended Advisory Committee at the OSB, 2011.

Member of the Arts and Humanities Center ad hoc Committee, 2010-12.

Member of a Promotion Committee in FAAH, 2010-11

Member of the FAS Advisory Committee, 2007-2009.

Acting Chair of the Library Committee, 2005-8.

Member of the Search Committee for Studio Arts and Art History, 2005.

Member of Accreditation Task Team X: Faculty, 2002-4.

Member of the AUB/AUC/LAU/UC Collaborative Initiative on Gender,

2001-5

Member of the CBR Executive Committee, 2001-4.

Member of the Admissions Committee, 2000-2002.

Member of ad-hoc Committee on International Programs, 2000-1.

Member of the University Publication Committee, 1999-2001.

Member of the Research Committee, 1999-2001.

Member of Ad hoc Committee on Departmental By-Laws, 2000.

Member of Ad hoc Committee on Teaching Effectiveness, Fall, 1999.

Acting Chair of the Department of History and Archaeology, July-Sept.,

1999 and August-Sept., 2000.

Academic Advisor to the History students, 1999-2001.

Secretary of the University Library Committee, 1998-2000.

Member of the University Student Faculty Committee, 1998-2000.

Member of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Networking Needs, 1997.

Member of the Administrative Committee, 1996-8.

Freshman Academic Advisor, 1996-8

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Advisor to the History and Archaeology Student Society, 1996-7.