Ussama Makdisi
Professor of History, Rice University
Ussama Makdisi is professor of history and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. His latest book is Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (2019).
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Nations and empires
East of Zionism
In 1900 my grandfather’s generation imagined a modernising Arab world, multireligious and progressive. What happened?
Ussama Makdisi
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Nations and empires
Cosmopolitan Ottomans
European colonisation put an abrupt end to political experiments towards a more equal, diverse and ecumenical Arab world
Ussama Makdisi