Samir Seikaly

- Chairperson of the History and Archaeology department between October 2007 and October 2010                                                                                                                                                                                   - Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
- Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, AUB, since 1990.
- Visiting Professor, Department of Afro-American and African Studies University of Minnesota, 1999.
- Serving on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies.
- Over the years he has served as the chairperson of the Department of History and Archaeology, the Civilization Sequence Program as well as being, for many years, Freshman Arts Academic advisor.

Areas of Research

Socio-economic and intellectual transformations in the modern Middle East.

Courses Taught at AUB

Courses, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, cover :

A Social History of the Modern Middle East: 1800–1980 ( HIST 242)
Confronting Modernity:The Arab East and Egypt from 1798 to 1920 ( HIST 240)
Historical interpretation. ( HIST 286)
Historical writing ( HIST 287)
History of the Arab East and Egypt Since 1920 ( HIST 243)
The Palestine Problem ( HIST 258)
Research and documentation.
 

Recent Publications

-"Christian Contributions to the Nahda in Palestine Prior to World I," Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies 2(2000)
-" Transcending Sectarian Strife: Nafir Suriyyah as Message and Medium." In T. Scheffler, ed. Religion Between Violence and Reconciliation (2002)
-" Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabahani and the West." In B. Heyberger, ed. Les Européens vu par les Libanais à l'époque Ottomane (2002)
-"The Syrian Economy at the Turn of the Century:
-The Testimony of al-Muqtabas, 1906-1914," is in Press.