Position:

Departmental Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / St Antony's College

Email:

toufoul.abou-hodeib@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Arab World in the 19th-20th century
• Reform and Modernisation in the Middle Eas
• Cultural History

Current Projects:

• Domesticity and the emergence of a middle class in late Ottoman Beirut, investigating the late Ottoman urban home as a meeting point between administrative and legal state reforms, intellectual projects and new consumption practices.
• 19th and 20th century history of sacred sites in what is today South Lebanon, looking at the relation between the modernisation of religion and politics and the shift from a multi-religious to a communitarian sanctity.

Courses Taught:

History of the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Recent Publications:

• “Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (2011): 475-492.
• “Researching Domestic Life in Late Ottoman Beirut ,” Syrian Studies Association Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 2 (2009).
• “Hanna Mina,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th-Century Arabic Writers, vol. 346, al-Mallah and Fitzpatrick eds. (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 2008), 171-177.
• “Quarantine and Trade: The Case of Beirut, 1831-1840,” International Journal of Maritime History 19 (2007): 223-243.