He is also the author of “Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001” (Public Affairs, 2010). Professor Makdisi’s most recent book “Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World” was published in 2019 by the University of California Press.

Makdisi was awarded the Berlin Prize and spent the Spring 2018 semester as a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin. In April 2009, the Carnegie Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Scholar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Muslim societies and communities, both in the United States and abroad. In 2012-2013, Makdisi was an invited Resident Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin). During AY 2019-2020, Professor Makdisi was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of History.

He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley.

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