Saree Makdisi

Background

Makdisi was born in the United States (Washington). His father, Samir Makdisi, is a Lebanese-Palestinian professor of economics at the American University of Beirut and his mother, Jean Said Makdisi, is a Palestinian independent scholar (formerly of Beirut University College). He is also the grandson of Anis K. Makdisi, a professor of Arabic at American University of Beirut and the nephew of the late literary scholar, Edward Said. In 2009, Makdisi gave the Edward Said Memorial lecture at the University of Adelaide.

He spent his early childhood in the United States, moving to Lebanon at the age of eight. While he grew up in a Christian family, they lived in a "largely Muslim neighborhood in Beirut." Makdisi returned to the United States for his final year in high school and also attended college there.

On November 26, 2023 Makdisi with his two brothers, Karim and Ussama, began hosting a podcast entitled Makdisi Street

Selected publications

Books

• Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (New York and Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
• Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton, 2008; revised and updated, with a new foreword by Alice Walker, 2010)
• Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race & Imperial Culture (London and Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014)
• Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022)

Articles and interviews

• "Domesticating Exoticism: Transformations of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835" from Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
• January 2009 radio interview about Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation on KPFA.

Awards

• 2009 Arab American Book Award, Honorable Mention: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Notes

References

1. [http://www.usyd.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2009/excavating_memory_jerusalem.shtml Excavating Memory in Jerusalem]
2. "Citations search: "Saree Makdisi'" (Google Books)".
3. Makdisi, Saree: ''Palestine Inside Out'', p. xxv. Norton, 2010.
4. "The Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature".
5. "Saree Makdisi: Professor and commentator".
6. "About the Edward Said Memorial Lecture". University of Adelaide.
7. (26 November 2023). "Makdisi Street".
8. "Saree Makdisi".
9. "Tolerance Is a Wasteland by Saree Makdisi - ePub + PDF".
10. "2009 Arab American Book Awards".