Research

Selected Books by MEMEAC faculty -

Egypt as a Woman - Beth Baron, History
A Culture of Sufism - Dina Le Gall, History
A New Old Damascus - Christa Salamandra, Anthropology
The Middle East and Islamic World Reader - Stuart Schaar, History
After Jews and Arabs - Ammiel Alcalay, Classical, Mid-Eastern & Asian Languages and Cultures
Stalled Democracy - Eva Bellin, Political Science
Call Me by Your Name: A Novel - Andre Aciman, Comparative Literature
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
Commerce in 18th Century Izmir - Elena Frangakis-Syrett, History
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? - Moustafa Bayoumi, English

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.