Vita
Michael Provence teaches Middle East history. He came to UCSD in 2004 after three years at SMU in Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001.
His research focuses on the colonial and post-colonial Arab world, particularly popular insurgency and nationalism between the World Wars. |
Publications
- The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, University of Texas Press, Modern Middle East Series, No. 22, 2005.
- “Ottoman and French Mandate Land Registers for the Region of Damascus,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Volume 39, Number 1, June 2005.
- “Talal Rizk: Syrian Engineer in the Gulf.” In Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, 2nd edition, edited by Edmund Burke and David Yaghoubian, University of California Press, December, 2005.
- “Druze Shaykhs, Arab Nationalists, and Grain Merchants in Jabal Hawran.” In, The Druze: Realities and Perceptions, edited by Kamal Salibi, 2005.
- “A Nationalist Rebellion Without Nationalists? Popular Mobilizations in Mandatory Syria, 1925-1926.” In The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective, edited by Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett, Brill, 2004.
- “Identifying Rebels: Insurgents in the Countryside of Damascus, 1925-26.” In From the Syrian Lands to the States of Syria and Lebanon, edited by Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 96, 2004.
- “An Investigation into the Local Origins of the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925.” In France, Syrie et Liban: Les ambiguïtés et les dynamiques de la relation mandataire, edited by Nadine Méouchy, IFEAD, 2002.
Press Publications
- “How the U.S. Can Withdraw from Iraq,” San Diego Union Tribune, 25 July 2005.
- “The Promised Peace in the Middle East?” San Diego Union Tribune, 19 January 2005.
- “America and the Future of Iraq” San Diego Union Tribune, 9 September 2004.
- “When Other Western Powers Failed in the Mideast,” Dallas Morning News, 14 April 2003.
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