I realized long ago that the wartime and interwar period was a time of common experience and intimate connectedness for the people of the post-Ottoman region generally. I wanted to write a book that got at the unity of experience and collective consciousness of the p..
Michael Provence
Michael Provence is Professor in the Department of History at University of California, San Diego. He has been a visiting assistant professor in the AUB Department of History and Archaeology, an Alexander von Humboldt senior fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and a fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes, France.
He was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley, and spent long periods living in Damascus, where he studied at Damascus University, and Beirut. He has written two books, The Great Syrian Revolt, (2005, Arabic 2012) and The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East, out in spring 2017. He has also written many articles on the late Ottoman and colonial Middle East of the early twentieth century.