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.
Provence's current project is a history of Arab East in the period of direct colonial rule between 1920 and 1950. The project views the period by understanding the rebellions in each of the new colonial states as part of a unified regional movement. The work explores both the shared Ottoman past of the region and the shared experience of colonial military occupation and martial law. |
Publications
- The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism,
University of Texas Press, Modern Middle East Series, No. 22, 2005.
- "Late Ottoman State Education," in Religion, ethnicity, and Contested Nationhood in the Former Ottoman Space, edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, forthcoming, Brill, 2010.
- "Ottoman Subalterns and Popular Revolt in the Arab East," in The Subaltern and the Popular, edited by Swati Chattopadhyay, forthcoming, Routledge, 2010.
- "Liberal Colonialism and Martial Law in French Mandate Syria," In Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Christoph Schumann, Brill, 2008.
- "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.
Media
- "America's Real Choices in Iraq," With James Rauch, UCSD Economics Department, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 October 2007.
- "A Year After the Lebanon War," San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2007.
- Radio Interview on the Lebanon War, KPBS-NPR, These Days, 31 July, 2006. (mp3 file)
- Radio Interview from Beirut, Lebanon, KPBS-NPR, These Days, 19 December 2005. (mp3 file)
- Radio Interview on The Great Syrian Revolt, on KPBS-NPR, These Days, 24 August 2005. (mp3 file)
- "How the U.S. Can Withdraw from Iraq," San Diego Union
Tribune, 25 July 2005.
- "The Promised Peace in the Middle East?" San Diego Union
Tribune, 19 January 2005.
- "America and the Future of Iraq" San Diego Union Tribune,
9 September 2004.
- "When
Other Western Powers Failed in the Mideast," Dallas Morning
News, 14 April 2003.
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