Saree Makdisi (born 1964) is an American literary critic and professor specializing in British Romanticism.[1] He is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent.[2] He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture.[1] Makdisi is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[3]

Life

Makdisi was born in Washington, United States.[4] His father, Samir Makdisi, is a Lebanese-Palestinian professor of economics at the American University of Beirut and his mother, Jean Said Makdisi, is a Palestinian independent scholar (formerly of Beirut University College). He is also the grandson of Anis K. Makdisi, a late professor of Arabic at American University of Beirut and the nephew of the late literary scholar Edward Said.[1][5] In 2009, Makdisi gave the Edward Said Memorial lecture at the University of Adelaide.[6]

He spent his early childhood in the United States, moving to Lebanon at the age of eight. While he grew up in a Christian family, they lived "in a largely Muslim neighborhood of Beirut."[4] Makdisi returned to the United States for his final year in high school and also attended college there.[4] He received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1987 and a PhD from Duke University in 1993.[3] He taught for ten years as a professor of English at the University of Chicago before joining UCLA in 2003.[5] His work has been commended for his application of psychoanalytic theory, including the theories of Freud and Lacan, to MENA societies.[7]

On November 26, 2023, Makdisi with his two brothers, Karim and Ussama, began hosting a podcast entitled Makdisi Street [8]

Books

Awards

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Excavating Memory in Jerusalem". The University of Sydney. Archived from the original on October 30, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Saree Makdisi". Text Publishing. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Makdisi, Saree". UCLA English. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 Makdisi, Saree (2008). Palestine inside out: an everyday occupation. New York: W.W. Norton. p. xv. ISBN 978-0-393-06606-7.
  5. 1 2 "Saree Makdisi: Professor and commentator". IMEU. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007.
  6. ↑ Adams, Phillip (September 16, 2009). "Saree Makdisi - Edward Said Memorial". ABC listen. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  7. ↑ Gottreich, Emily (July 14, 2023). "Makdisi, Saree. Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial". Arab Studies Quarterly. 45 (3). doi:10.13169/arabstudquar.45.3.0244. ISSN 0271-3519.
  8. ↑ "Makdisi Street". YouTube. November 26, 2023. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  9. ↑ Young, Brian (2001). "Review of Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity; Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830; British Imperial Literature 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire". The Review of English Studies. 52 (208): 551–556. ISSN 0034-6551.
  10. ↑ "William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s, Makdisi". The University of Chicago Press. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi". Publishers Weekly. March 10, 2008. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture, Makdisi". The University of Chicago Press. Retrieved May 17, 2025.
  13. ↑ Lincoln, Andrew (July 3, 2017). "Saree Makdisi, Reading William Blake". Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 51 (1). doi:10.47761/biq.195. ISSN 0160-628X.
  14. ↑ "Tolerance Is a Wasteland by Saree Makdisi - ePub + PDF". University of California Press. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  15. ↑ "2009 Arab American Book Award Winners". Arab American National Museum. December 1, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
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