Research

My expertise is global political sociology with a focus on the Middle East. I have made significant contributions in three thematic fields: social memory, the history of radical movements, and transnational solidarity. My articles and books are widely cited in historiographic literature on Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, and on the Arab Left. The questions I ask are informed by conceptual debates in global sociology, global history, and Middle East studies. My books and articles touch on central themes in political sociology like mass media, revolution, ideology, incarceration, transitional justice, the state, mobilization, intellectual history, and urban sociology. I draw on long experience from, and networks in, Arab countries and milieus.