Research

Selected Books by MEMEAC faculty -


After Jews and Arabs - Ammiel Alcalay, Classical, Mid-Eastern & Asian Languages and Cultures
Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture - Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale
Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond - Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel - Andre Aciman, Comparative Literature
Commerce in 18th Century Izmir - Elena Frangakis-Syrett, History
Contested Space: Anglo-American Relations in the Persian Gulf, 1939-1947 - Simon Davis, History
A Culture of Sufism - Dina Le Gall, History
Egypt as a Woman - Beth Baron, History
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? - Moustafa Bayoumi, English
The Middle East and Islamic World Reader - Stuart Schaar, History
A New Old Damascus - Christa Salamandra, Anthropology
Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control Between the Wars - Clifford Rosenberg, History
Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon - Christopher Stone, Classical and Oriental Studies
Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity - Samira Haj, History
Stalled Democracy - Eva Bellin, Political Science
Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity) - Marnia Lazreg (Hardcover - Dec 3, 2007)
Urban Iran - Salar Abdoh and Charlotte Noruzi (Hardcover - Dec 25, 2008)


The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Anny Bakalian of MEMEAC a grant for a project entitled: "How Support Organizations Respond to Crises: Middle Eastern and South Asian American Organizations in the Aftermath of September 11."

Publications from NSF study:

Muslim American Mobilization (new)
Closure of Muslim Philanthropic Organizations after 9/11
Discriminatory Reactions to September 11, 2001 Terrorism
Responding to the Backlash by Arab/Muslim American Advocacy Organizations
Government Initiatives after the September 11th Attack on America

In association with the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, Graduate Center, CUNY, MEMEAC has supervised an oral history project, recording the voices of Arab and Muslim Americans for the 911DigitalArchive - a depository for future researchers.

In collaboration with CUNY's Center for Philanthropy, MEMEAC has published the following volume: Philanthropy Among Middle Eastern Americans and Their Historical Traditions of Giving, edited by Mehdi Bozorghmehr and Beth Baron, Curriculum Guide #14, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, GC-CUNY, 2001. (For copies click here)

MEMEAC and the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA have cooperated to create the Middle East American Resource Online program (MEARO). This web sitefeatures scholarly resources on the largest Middle Eastern ethnic groups in the United States, including Arabs, Armenians, Iranians, Turks, and Israelis.