Akram Fouad Khater (Arabic: أكرم فؤاد خاطر; born December 3, 1960)
is a
Lebanese-born American professor, historian, and author. He serves as a professor of history, and the director of the
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...
(NCSU).
He specializes in the history of Lebanon, Lebanese Studies and diaspora, the Middle Eastern history, and Arab relations.
Biography
Akram Fouad Khater was born on December 3, 1960 in Lebanon.
He immigrated to the United States in 1978, during the
Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...
.
Khater received a B.S. degree from California State Polytechnic University, a M.A. degree in 1987 from the
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...
, and a Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...
in 1993.
He is currently developing an undergraduate and masters program on teaching high school world history. He received the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award for 1998–1999, and the NCSU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 1999–2000.
Khater
produced the
PBS
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documentary, ''Cedars in the Pines'' (2012) about the Lebanese community in North Carolina.
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References
External links
* http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/akhater/personal/
* Video
Cedars In The Pines(PBS, 2012)
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Historians of the Middle East
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
North Carolina State University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Living people
American male non-fiction writers
1960 births
21st-century Lebanese historians
Lebanese emigrants to the United States