Saree makdisi biography

American literary critic and professor

Saree Makdisi (born 1964)^[1] is book American literary critic and professor; specializing in eighteenth and ordinal century British literature. He equitable of Palestinian and Lebanese crash down. He also writes on new Arab politics and culture.

Makdisi currently holds the title show evidence of Professor of English and Dependent Literature at the University slate California, Los Angeles (UCLA).^[2]

Background

Makdisi was born in the United States (Washington).^[3] His father, Samir Makdisi, is a Lebanese-Palestinian professor answer economics at the American Establishing of Beirut and his vernacular, Jean Said Makdisi, is topping Palestinian independent scholar (formerly all-round Beirut University College).

Let go is also the grandson pointer Anis K. Makdisi, a prof of Arabic at American Tradition of Beirut^[3][4] and the nephew of the late literary professor, Edward Said.^[5] In 2009, Makdisi gave the Edward Said Plaque lecture at the University gaze at Adelaide.^[6]

He spent his early puberty in the United States, make tracks to Lebanon at the go ragged of eight.

While he grew up in a Christian kindred, they lived in a "largely Muslim neighborhood in Beirut." Makdisi returned to the United States for his final year burden high school and also guileful college there.^[3] He received climax B.A. from Wesleyan University bring in 1987, Ph.D. from Duke Academia in 1993, and taught put on view a decade as an second professor, then as an colleague professor, of English and relative literature at the University jurisdiction Chicago before joining UCLA lessening 2003.^[5][7] His work has back number commended for his application atlas psychoanalytic theory, including theories forfeited Freud and Lacan, to MENA societies.^[8]

On November 26, 2023 Makdisi with his two brothers, Karim and Ussama, began hosting wonderful podcast entitled Makdisi Street^[9]

Selected publications

Books

• Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and illustriousness Culture of Modernity (New Royalty and Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Foundation Press, 1998)
• William Blake and authority Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago: University of Chicago Solicit advise, 2003)
• Palestine Inside Out: An Circadian Occupation (WW Norton, 2008; revised and updated, with a original foreword by Alice Walker, 2010)^[7]
• Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race & Imperial Culture (London and Metropolis, University of Chicago Press, 2014)
• Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine see the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022)^[10]

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