Max Weiss is an American scholar and translator, specialising in the culture and history of the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

.Profile on Princeton University website
/ref> He studied biology and history at

University of California, 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 u ...

before moving on to

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, where he completed his PhD in modern Middle Eastern history in 2007. He joined the faculty of

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in 2010. Weiss is the author of ''In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon'' (2010). He is also a noted translator of contemporary

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from ...

into English. His translation of Abbas Beydoun's novel ''Blood Test'' won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. Weiss is also a two-time fellow of the

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Books

As author

* ''In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon'' (2010)

As translator

* ''B as in Beirut'' by

Iman Humaydan Younes Iman Humaydan (born 1956) is a Lebanese writer, researcher and creative writing professor at Saint-Denis Paris 8 University in France. She was born in the Mount Lebanon governorate in 1956. She studied sociology and Anthropology at the American Uni ...

* ''Blood Test'' by Abbas Beydoun * ''A Tunisian Tale'' by

Hassouna Mosbahi Hassouna Mosbahi ( ar, حسونة المصباحي) (born 1950 in Dhehibat, Kairouan) is a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist. Biography Hassouna Mosbahi was born in 1950 in the village of Dhehibat in the governorate of ...

* ''The Silence and the Roar'' by

Nihad Sirees Nihad Sirees (; born 1950, Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary fiction and screenwriter. He was born in the northern Syrian metropolis Aleppo and studied engineering in Bulgaria. Sirees emerged as a fiction writer in the 1980s, and ha ...

* ''States of Passion'' by

* ''The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq'' by

Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American poet based in the United States. Life She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family. She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad. Mikhail worked as a jo ...

* work by

Fawwaz Haddad Fawwaz Haddad (Arabic: فواز حدّاد) (born 1947) is a Syrian novelist. He was born in Damascus and studied law at Damascus University. He held several jobs before taking up writing full-time. Haddad published his first novel ''Mosaic, ...

(forthcoming)

References

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Books

As author

As translator

See also

References