At the beginning of graduate school, I read Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon. Fisk was a master at conveying Lebanese politics in vivid detail. I was already seriously into comparative politics by then.
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. Previously, he taught at the University of Virginia and as a visiting assistant professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has held fellowships at the Kennedy School and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Orient-Institut Beirut, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He has lived in Syria and Lebanon and is fluent in Arabic.