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May Fatté Davie
May Davie (also May Fatté Davie; born 1950 in Beirut) is a Lebanese and French historian and scholar specializing in urban history, religious architecture, and socio-political structures in the Middle East. She is a professor at the University of Balamand and serves as the director of the Department of Religious Heritage: Art and Architecture at the university’s Institute of History, Archaeology, and Near Eastern Studies (IOHANES). She also serves as the director of the ARPOA (Architecture Religieuse du Patriarcat Orthodoxe d'Antioche) laboratory at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. Education Davie earned her Bachelor of Economics from Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut in 1973, followed by a Master’s in History from the same institution in 1987. She completed her Doctorate in History at Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1993 under the supervision of . During her doctoral studies, she also pursued advanced training at Université d’Aix-en-Provence in 1991. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on Primary source, primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
