2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows
Max Weiss
Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Max Weiss is an associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon; co-editor (with Jens Hanssen) of Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda, and Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present; and translator, most recently, of Dunya Mikhail’s The Beekeeper and Nihad Sirees’ States of Passion.
Publications:
Project Title: The Hallowed Sanctuary: An Interpretive History of Modern Syria
In the News:
- 70 Years of the United Nations in International Affairs (Oxford University Press)
- 70 and Counting: Whither the UN? (Democracy: A Journal of Ideas)
- January 1, 2017: Let the Honeymoon for UN Reform Begin (International Peace Institute)
