Civic Identity and Narrations of the Damascus from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
Dana Sajdi is currently working on Civic Identity and Narrations of the Damascus from the 11th to the 20th Centuries.
EUME
2006/ 2007
2006/ 2007
Dana Sajdi
Civic Identity and Narrations of the Damascus from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
was educated in Nablus, Amman, Cairo, and New York and received her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation on Peripheral Visions: The Worlds and Worldviews of Commoner Chronicles in the 18th Century Ottoman Levant. She was Assistant Professor of Middle East History at Concordia University, Montreal and a fellow of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (2005/6). Among her publications are: A Room of His Own: the ‘History’ of the Barber of Damascus (fl. 1762), in: the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 4 (2004), and The qasida of Layla al-Akhyaliyyah, in: Journal of Arabic Literature 31.2 (2000).
