Max Weiss is an American scholar and translator, specialising in the culture and history of the

Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

.Profile on Princeton University website
/ref> He studied biology and history at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

before moving on to

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, where he completed his PhD in modern Middle Eastern history in 2007. He joined the faculty of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 2010. Weiss is the author of ''In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon'' (2010) and ''Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba‘thist Syria'' (2022). He is also a noted translator of contemporary

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

into English. His translation of Abbas Beydoun's novel ''Blood Test'' won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. Weiss is also a two-time fellow of the

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Books

As author

* ''In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon'' (Harvard University Press, 2010) * ''Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba‘thist Syria'' (Stanford University Press, 2022)

As translator

* ''B as in Beirut'' by Iman Humaydan Younes * ''Blood Test'' by Abbas Beydoun * '' A Tunisian Tale'' by Hassouna Mosbahi * ''The Silence and the Roar'' by Nihad Sirees * ''States of Passion'' by Nihad Sirees * ''The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq'' by

Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail (born 19 March, 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American poet based in the United States. Life She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family. She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad. Mikhail work ...

* work by

Fawwaz Haddad Fawwaz Haddad (Arabic: فواز حدّاد) (born 1947) is a Syrian novelist. He was born in Damascus and studied law at Damascus University. He held several jobs before taking up writing full-time. Haddad published his first novel ''Mosaic, Dam ...

(forthcoming)

References

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Books

As author

As translator

See also

References