Fellow Spotlight: Ussama Makdisi
Rice University historian Ussama Makdisi is working on a book about the history of coexistence and sectarianism in the modern Middle East.
Ussama Makdisi is a professor of history and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. At the Academy, Makdisi is working on his next book, under contract with the University of California Press, on the history of coexistence and sectarianism in the modern Middle East. (Photo: Annette Hornischer)
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