Leila Tarazi Fawaz

Doctorate Degree, History, 1979, Harvard University, United States of America.
Master's Degree, History, 1972, Harvard University, United States of America.
Master's Degree, History, 1968, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Bachelor's Degree (with distinction), History, 1967, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Certificate (with distinction), General Modern Literary Studies (Certificat d'Etudes Littéraires Générales Modernes), 1965, École Supérieure des Lettres affiliated with the Lyons University in France, Lebanon.

Areas of expertise

Expertise:

History
Ottoman Empire
World War I

Languages:

English
Arabic
French

Work history

Jobs:

Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, 2001-present, Tufts University.
Professor of History and of Diplomacy, 1994-present, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Professor of History, 1994 - present, Tufts University.
Founding Director, 2001-2012, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University.
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College for Humanities and Arts, 1996-2001, Tufts University.
Chair, 1994-1996, Department of History, Tufts University.
Associate Professor, 1984 - 1994, Department of History, Tufts University.
Associate Professor of Diplomacy, 1984-1994, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Assistant Professor, 1979 - 1984, Department of History, Tufts University.

Honorary office and memberships

Member, Visiting Committee for the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, 2017-present.
Member, Visiting Committee for Harvard College, Board of Overseers, Harvard University, 2006-2017.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences (Comité Scientifique de la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme), 2005-present.
Member of the Advisory Board to The Ginkgo Library, London, UK, 2014-2018.
Member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Middle East Studies, 1996-present.
President of the Harvard Board of Overseers, 2011 - 2012.
Member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, 2006 - 2012.
Nominating Committee, American Historical Association, 2014-2017.
Chair of the Fulbright Scholar Middle East Review Committee, 2007 - 2009.
Chair of the Visiting Committee at the Harvard University Center for Middle East Studies, 2004-2005.
Past President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1997-1998.
President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1996-1997.
President of the Board of Directors at the American University of Beirut Alumni Association of North America, 1995-1997.
Past President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1995-1996.
Chair of the Advisory Committee in the Middle East History and Literature, Fulbright-Hays Scholars, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1992-1995.

Productions

Publications highlights:

Fawaz, L. (2014). A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Fawaz, L. & Mansour, C. (Eds.). (2009). Transformed landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in honor of Walid Khalidi . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.

Fawaz, L. (1983). Merchants and migrants in nineteenth century Beirut. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Fawaz, L. (Ed.). (1991). State and society in Lebanon. Oxford: The Centre for Lebanese Studies and Tufts University.
Fawaz, L. (1994). An occasion for war: Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860. London: I.B. Tauris and Berkeley.
Fawaz, L., Bayly, C. A., & Ilbert, R. (Eds.). (2002). Modernity and culture from the Mediterranean sea to the Indian ocean. New York: Columbia University Press.

Exhibitions, lectures & performances:

Keynote Speaker, “Sensing Colonial Ports and Global History: Agency, Affect, Temporality,” The Colonial Ports and Global History (CPAGH) Network conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2-3, 2019.
Speaker, “Old Empire to New Empire? From the Ottomans to the British and French,” for the conference “Reorganizing the Middle East: 1914-1948,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 13-14, 2018.
Speaker, “Intercommunal Relations: Druze and Others,” for the conference “The Druze: Celebrating a Thousand Years of Diversity,” Center for Arts and Humanities – Mellon Grant, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, October 30-31, 2018.
Speaker, “Settlement and Unsettlement: The Reshaping of World Order after World War I,” the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, March 15-17, 2018.
Speaker, “Coping with World War I in Greater Syria,” All Souls College Visiting Fellowship 50th Anniversary event, Oxford, England, June 24, 2016.
Speaker, “Civilians and Soldiers in the Levant 1914-1918,” conference on The Great War in the Middle East (1911-1923), the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University, April 20-22, 2016.
Speaker, “Living and Remembering History: Writing on the Great War,” Kamal Salibi Lecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, May 5, 2015.
Speaker, “The Role of Memory in Shaping Identity: The First World War as Remembered in the Former Ottoman Syrian Lands,” keynote at conference “The First World War and its Aftermath: The Shaping of the Middle East,” School of Oriental and African Studies and New College of the Humanities, The Gingko Library, London, UK, December 7, 2014.
Speaker, “Perspectives of Foreign Soldiers in the Middle East during World War I,” at the conference “The Mashriq in the Age of Late Imperialism: The Mandates in Global Perspective,” Princeton University, September 20-23, 2013.
Speaker, “The Eastern Mediterranean and the End of an Ottoman Empire Era, ca 1900-1914,” at the conference “The Local Histories of Lebanon Revisited” in commemoration of the late Professor Kamal Salibi, Orient-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon, October 18-19, 2012.
Speaker, "The Middle East Changing Political and Strategic Landscape", presented at the Talloires symposium at the Fletcher School, Tufts European Center, Talloires, France, 2012.

Speaker, "Exchanges in Times of War: Coping with World War I", conference on "Jews, Christians, and Muslims in History: Exchange and Cooperation", organized by the Hitorisches Kolleg in Munich in cooperation with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, 2009.
Keynote Speaker, "People on the Move: Soldiers in the Middle Eastern Theatre of the Great War", at the XIII International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History: "La Méditerranée sur la route des Indes: Savoirs, mémoire, imaginaire, réseaux, organized by La Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, in Marseille (opening) and Aix-en Provence, France, 2010.
Speaker, "War and Society in Historical Perspective", presented at the "Global Conference of Mothers Against Violence", organized by the Turkish Women Business Association (TIKAD), Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
Speaker, "Society and War in Historical Perspective", presented at a symposium in memory of professor Kamal Salibi, hosted by the Worldwide Alumni Association of the American University of Beirut, Washington D.C. Chapter, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011.
Speaker, "Civil War in Historical Perspective", presented at the conference "Healing the Wounds of History:Addressing the Roots of Violence", hosted by the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Univeristy of Oxford and the Guerrand-Hermes Foundation for Peace, in partnership with the Lebanese American Univeristy, Byblos, Lebanon, 2011.
Speaker, "The Emergence of Turkey as a Regional Superpower: Challenges and Choices", hosted by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, 2012.