Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi | |
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| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Romanticism |
| Parents | Jean Said Makdisi |
Saree Makdisi (born 1964)Arab politics and culture. Makdisi currently holds the title of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[2]
Background
Makdisi was born in the United States (Washington).Arabic at American University of Beirut[3][4] and the nephew of the late literary scholar, Edward Said.[5] In 2009, Makdisi gave the Edward Said Memorial lecture at Adelaide University.[6]
He spent his early childhood in the United States, moving to Lebanon at the age of eight. While he grew up in a
UCLA in 2003.[5][7] His work has been commended for his application of psychoanalytic theory, including theories of Freud and Lacan, to MENA societies.[8]
On November 26, 2023 Makdisi with his two brothers, Karim, and Ussama began hosting a podcast entitled Makdisi Street.[9]
Selected publications
Books
- Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (New York and Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
- Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton, 2008; revised and updated, with a new foreword by Alice Walker, 2010)[7]
- Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race & Imperial Culture (London and Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Articles and interviews
- "Domesticating Exoticism: Transformations of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835" from Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
- January 2009 radio interview about Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation on KPFA.
Awards
- 2009 Arab American Book Award, Honorable Mention: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation[10]
Notes
- ^ Excavating Memory in Jerusalem
- ^ "Citations search: "Saree Makdisi'" (Google Books)". Retrieved April 18, 2010.
- ^ a b c Makdisi, Saree: Palestine Inside Out, p. xxv. Norton, 2010.
- ^ "The Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature".
- ^ a b "Saree Makdisi: Professor and commentator".
- ^ "About the Edward Said Memorial Lecture". University of Adelaide. Archived from the original on January 12, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
- ^ a b "Saree Makdisi". Saree Makdisi.
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- ^ "Makdisi Street". YouTube. November 26, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
- ^ "2009 Arab American Book Awards".
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