Max Weiss
earned his PhD in History from Stanford in 2007 and is now Postdoctoral Fellow in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, and is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled, Institutions of Sectarianism.
His translation of Iman Humaydan Younes's B as in Beirut was published by Interlink late 2007 and his translation of Abbas Beydoun's Blood Test (excerpted in Banipal 29) was published by Syracuse University Press in 2008.
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Banipal No 34 published April 2009
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