Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi (b. 1964) is an American Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Makdisi is the author of several books on British Romanticism, which is his area of expertise, and he writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. Makdisi comes from a lineage that is well-known in academia. He is the grandson of Anis K. Makdisi (1885-1977), who was a renowned professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and the nephew of the late Edward Said.
Books
- William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
- Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (New York and Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Articles
- [http://www.rc.umd.edu/bibliographies/CUP/makdisi/chapter/makdisi1.html "Domesticating Exoticism: Transformatons of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835" from Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
External links
- Profile of Saree Makdisi at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Saree Makdisi Archive
- "The Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature" Biography of Anis K. Makdisi at AUB