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Michael Provence

Vita

Publications

Current Research

Courses

 

Vita

Michael Provence teaches Middle East history. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001. Provence is the current director of the Middle East Studies Programs at UCSD.

His research focuses on the colonial and post-colonial Arab world, particularly popular insurgency and nationalism between the World Wars.

Publications

  • The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, University of Texas Press, Modern Middle East Series, No. 22, 2005.
  • "Ottoman and French Mandate Land Registers for the Region of Damascus," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Volume 39, Number 1, June 2005.
  • "Talal Rizk: Syrian Engineer in the Gulf." In Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, 2nd edition, edited by Edmund Burke and David Yaghoubian, University of California Press, December, 2005.
  • "Druze Shaykhs, Arab Nationalists, and Grain Merchants in Jabal Hawran." In, The Druze: Realities and Perceptions, edited by Kamal Salibi, 2005.
  • "A Nationalist Rebellion Without Nationalists? Popular Mobilizations in Mandatory Syria, 1925-1926." In The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective, edited by Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett, Brill, 2004.
  • "Identifying Rebels: Insurgents in the Countryside of Damascus, 1925-26." In From the Syrian Lands to the States of Syria and Lebanon, edited by Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 96, 2004.
  • "An Investigation into the Local Origins of the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925." In France, Syrie et Liban: Les ambiguïtés et les dynamiques de la relation mandataire, edited by Nadine Méouchy, IFEAD, 2002.

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Current Research

  • Colonial rule, resistance, and nationalism in the Arab Ottoman successor states of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.

Courses

  • HINE 119. Contemporary Middle East Conflicts.
  • HINE 199. Research Topics in Middle East History.
  • INTL 190. Senior Seminar in modern Middle East Studies