Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Personal information
Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Professor
Contact information (Work)
Tufts University
+1 617 627 3329
Education
Education:
- Doctorate Degree, History, 1979, Harvard University, United States of America.
- Master's Degree, History, 1972, Harvard University, United States of America.
- Master's Degree, History, 1968, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
- Bachelor's Degree (with distinction), History, 1967, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
- Certificate (with distinction), General Modern Literary Studies (Certificat d'Etudes Littéraires Générales Modernes), 1965, École Supérieure des Lettres affiliated with the Lyons University in France, Lebanon.
Work history
Previous Professions:
- Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, 2001-present, Tufts University.
- Professor of History and of Diplomacy, 1994-present, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
- Professor of History, 1994 - present, Tufts University.
- Founding Director, 2001-2012, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University.
- Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College for Humanities and Arts, 1996-2001, Tufts University.
- Chair, 1994-1996, Department of History, Tufts University.
- Associate Professor, 1984 - 1994, Department of History, Tufts University.
- Associate Professor of Diplomacy, 1984-1994, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
- Assistant Professor, 1979 - 1984, Department of History, Tufts University.
Major Achievements
Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.):
- Fawaz, L. (2014). A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Fawaz, L. & Mansour, C. (Eds.). (2009). Transformed landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in honor of Walid Khalidi. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
- Fawaz, L. (1983). Merchants and migrants in nineteenth century Beirut. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Fawaz, L. (Ed.). (1991). State and society in Lebanon. Oxford: The Centre for Lebanese Studies and Tufts University.
- Fawaz, L. (1994). An occasion for war: Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860. London: I.B. Tauris and Berkeley.
- Fawaz, L., Bayly, C. A., & Ilbert, R. (Eds.). (2002). Modernity and culture from the Mediterranean sea to the Indian ocean. New York: Columbia University Press.
Exhibitions, lectures & performances:
- Keynote Speaker, "Colonial Ports and Global History: Agency, Impact, and Temporality," Colonial Ports and Global History Network (CPAGH) Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2-3, 2019.
- Speaker, "Old Empire to New Empire? From Ottomans to British and French," at the "Redrawing the Middle East: 1914-1948" Conference, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 13-14, 2018.
- Speaker, "Interfaith Relations: Druze and Others," at the "Druze: Celebrating a Thousand Years of Diversity" Conference, Mellon Grant Center for Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, October 30-31, 2018.
- Speaker, "Settlement and Instability: Reconfiguring the Global Order After World War I," National History Center of the American Historical Association and German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., March 15-17, 2018.
- Speaker, "Coping with World War I in Greater Syria," Solz Fellowship 50th Anniversary Event, Oxford, England, June 24, 2016.
- Speaker, "Civilians and Soldiers in the Levant 1914-1918," Conference on the Great War in the Middle East (1911-1923), War Studies Department, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and War Studies Program, University of Oxford, April 20-22, 2016.
- Speaker, "Life and the History of Memory: Writing about the Great War," Kamal Salibi Lecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, May 5, 2015.
- Speaker, "The Role of Memory in Shaping Identity: World War I as Remembered in the Former Ottoman Syrian Territories," Keynote Address at the Conference "World War I and Its Aftermath: Shaping the Middle East," School of Oriental and African Studies and New College for the Humanities, The Ginkgo Library, London, UK, December 7, 2014.
- Speaker, "Foreign Soldiers' Perspectives in the Middle East During World War I," at the Conference "The Mashriq in the Era of Late Imperialism: States in Global Perspective," Princeton University, September 20-23, 2013.
- Speaker, "Political and Strategic Variables in Middle Eastern Perspective," during the Talwar Seminar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts European Center, Talwar, France, 2012.
- Speaker, "The Emergence of Turkey as a Regional Power: Challenges and Choices," organized by The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, 2012.
- Speaker on "The Civil War in Historical Perspective," during the Conference "Healing the Wounds of History: Addressing the Roots of Violence," organized by the Center for Lebanese Studies at Oxford University and the Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace, in collaboration with the Lebanese American University, Jbeil, Lebanon, 2011.
- Speaker on "Society and War in Historical Perspective," during a seminar in honor of Professor Kamal Salibi, organized by the Worldwide Alumni Association of the American University of Beirut, Washington, D.C. branch, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011.
- Speaker on "War and Society in Historical Perspective," during the Global Conference of Mothers Against Violence, organized by the Turkish Businesswomen's Association (TIKAD), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
- Keynote Speaker, "People on the Move: Soldiers in the Middle Eastern Theatre of the Great War," at the XIII International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History, titled "The Mediterranean on the Way to India: Knowledge, Memory, Imagination, and Networks," organized by the Mediterranean House of Humanities, Marseille (opening) and Aix-en-Provence, France, 2010.
- Speaker on "Exchanges in Times of War: Coping with World War I," at the Conference "Jews, Christians, and Muslims in History: Exchange and Cooperation," organized by Historisches Kolleg in Munich in collaboration with Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2009.
Accomplishments
Awards:
- Received the French National Order of the Legion of Honor at the rank of Chevalier, 2012.
- Carnegie Scholar from the Carnegie Corporation Scholars Program, 2008.
- Received the New Citizen Award from the International Institute of Boston, 2000.
- Received the Lillian Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, Tufts University, 1982.
Competences & Skills
Field(s) of Expertise:
- History
- Ottoman Empire
- World War I
Languages:
- English
- Arabic
- French