Past Event
Thursday, February 27, 2014, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Emergence of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East
9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, 92093
Cost: Free
The Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies presents:
Ussama Makdisi.
Professor of History & Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies,
Rice University.
“Born in the Global Nineteenth Century: The Emergence of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East.”
Eleanor Roosevelt College Admin. Bldg. (ERC), Room 115.
Ussama Makdisi’s talk draws from his new book project on the history of sectarianism in the modern Middle East (beginning in the 19th Century), when questions of citizenship and equality came to the fore to challenge long-standing imperial notions of Ottoman Muslim supremacy.