Authors

Julia Clancy-Smith, Jacob Bessen, and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative

Julia Clancy-Smith is a professor of history at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She is the author of Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (California UP, 2010), which won the 2011 French Colonial Historical Society Book Award and the 2011 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Award for the Best Subsequent Book, and Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) (California UP, 1994), which received three book awards.  

 

Jacob Bessen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is Editor of the "Essential Readings" series published on Jadaliyya and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative.

 

MESPI is a curated interactive platform for ME studies resources specifically tailored for the needs of teachers, researchers, and students. It will be the one-stop shop for course design on the macro level, lesson planning on the micro level, and for scholarship vis-a-vis specific topics, countries, and disciplines. Contact us at info@ArabStudiesInstitute.org.

 

MESPI Core Team

Bassam Haddad, Co-Director
Ziad Abu-Rish, Co-Director
Nadya Sbaiti, NEWTON Coordinator
Rochelle Davis, MESPI Editor
Rosie Bsheer, MESPI Editor
Sherene Seikaly, MESPI Editor
Huseyin Yilmaz, MESPI Editor
Mekarem Eljamal, MESPI Managing Editor
Jacob Bessen, Essential Readings Coordinator
Maddie Vagadori, MESPI Website Coordinator
Shakeela Omar, Peer-Review Articles Review Coordinator
Jonathan Adler, Essential Texts Coordinator
Michael Haddad, Media Roundups Coordinator
Kylie Broderick, ASI Liaison

ARTICLES BY Julia Clancy-Smith, Jacob Bessen, and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative