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Firstname
Toufoul
Lastname
Abou-Hodeib
School
Subject of Study
Dissertation Title

Authentic Modern: Domesticity and the Emergence of a Middle Class Culture in Late Ottoman Beirut

Fellowship Types
Undergraduate College
Undergraduate Major
Faculty Advisers

Martin Stokes, Bill Brown, Lisa Wedeen

Dissertation Summary

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.

Courses Taught or Assisted

*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

Published or Conference Papers

"The Material Life of the Ottoman Middle Class," History Compass 10/8 (2012): 584-595.
*"Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut," International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (2011): 475-492.
*"Researching Domestic Life in Late Ottoman Beirut," Syrian Studies Association Newsletter 5/2 (2009).
*"Hanna Mina," Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th-Century Arabic Writers, vol. 346, al-Mallah and Fitzpatrick eds. (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 2008), 171-177.
*"Quarantine and Trade: The Case of Beirut, 1831-1840," International Journal of Maritime History 19 (2007): 223-243.

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