Ussama Makdisi
Dr Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. In 2012-2013, Makdisi was an invited Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. The Carnegie Corporation named him a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 as part of its effort to promote original scholarship on Muslim societies. His most recent book is the Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (2019).
Dr Makdisi is Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. In 2012-2013, Makdisi was an invited Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. The Carnegie Corporation named him a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 as part of its effort to promote original scholarship on Muslim societies. His most recent book is the Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (2019).
