This award-winning book by Stacy Fahrenthold, assistant professor of history, illuminates the role that Syrian and Lebanese migrants in the United States and Latin America played in Middle East state formation around the period of World War I. Between the Ottomans and the Entente (Oxford University Press, March 2019) provides context for the flight of millions of Syrian refugees today. This book won a 2020 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award from the Arab American National Museum. 

Stacy Fahrenthold is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in labor migration; displacement/refugees; border studies; and diasporas within and from the region. Her award winning first book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2019) explores the war work of Arab emigres living in Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, revealing the repercussions of their activism on the post-Ottoman Middle East. Her new book, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2024) examines how Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian immigrant workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation in the textile industries of the Atlantic world. She is also Associate Editor of the leading open access journal Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Migration Studies, and a series editor of Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East with the American University of Cairo Press.

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