Authentic Modern: Domesticity and the Emergence of a Middle Class Culture in Late Ottoman Beirut
Martin Stokes, Bill Brown, Lisa Wedeen
Investigates the home's role in mediating the experience of modernity and in formulating cultural "authenticity" for an emerging middle class in late Ottoman Beirut.
*American University of Beirut: Introductory Arabic, Intensive Summer Program, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.
*University of Chicago: "Culture of Modernity in the Middle East," (undergraduate & graduate).
*University of Oxford: "The History of the Middle East, 1860-1971," (M.Phil.); "The Middle East in the Age of Empire, 1882-1971," (undergraduate); "Nationalism and Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1961," (undergraduate); Supervision of undergraduate and M.Phil. theses.
*Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
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