Max Weiss

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Max Weiss is an Arabic translator and an associate professor of history and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His most recent book is Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present, co-edited with Jens Hanssen.

The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail
By Dunya Mikhail

Dunya Mikhail
New York. New Directions. 2018. 240 pages. In 2014 Daesh militants launched an assault on Sinjar in northern Iraq, home to hundreds of thousands of Yazidis—a religious minority whose belief system is…
The Spring
By Dunya Mikhail
January 2018
Dunya Mikhail
Offering tea in the Qadia/Rwanga IDP (internally displaced persons) camp, in the western Dohuk governorate of northern Iraq. As of February 2017, the population of the camp was 14,762 (including some…
A Tunisian Tale by Hassouna Mosbahi
By Hassouna Mosbahi

Hassouna Mosbahi
Max Weiss, tr. Cairo. American University in Cairo Press (Oxford University Press, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9789774164804 Set on the eve of the Iraq War, A Tunisian Tale reveals a westernized elit…