The post-Ottoman Arab mandates comprised an Anglo-French deal that emerged from the Great War peace settlement, Ottoman armistice, the Sykes-Picot accord of 1916, and Balfour Declaration of 1917. Britain and France agreed to divide the region, mostly under British army occupation, into two zones..
Michael Provence and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
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.
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 Associate Editor
Jacob Bessen, Essential Readings Coordinator
Maddie Vagadori, MESPI Website Coordinator
Shakeela Omar, Peer-Review Articles Review Coordinator
Claire Christensen, Peer-Review Articles Review Co-Coordinator
Jonathan Adler, Essential Texts Coordinator
Willa Hart, Peer-Review Articles Review Co-Coordinator
Michael Haddad, Media Roundups Coordinator
Kylie Broderick, ASI Liaison