Max Weiss

Max Weiss is an associate professor of history and Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. He is the author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon; co-editor (with Jens Hanssen) of Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda, and Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present; and translator, most recently, of Dunya Mikhail's The Beekeeper and Nihad Sirees'States of Passion.