Biographical reasons aside, I was looking to answer three questions in this book. How can we leverage what we know about the Middle East to think beyond that region—in “my” case, about the socio-spatial making of the modern world? What do we see when we look beyond n..
Cyrus Schayegh
Cyrus Schayegh was Associate Professor at Princeton and Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut before joining the International History Department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, in 2017. His monographs and other texts aside, he has co-edited, with Andrew Arsan, The Routledge History Handbook of the Middle East Mandates (London: Routledge, 2015), and, with Liat Kozma and Avner Wishnitzer, A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (London: Tauris, 2014). In 2006-2014, he served as an Iranian Studies review editor; in 2013-2014, he sat on the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies; and in 2018, he joined the editorial boards of Mahjar & Mashriq and itinerario.