Fawwaz Traboulsi| is Associate Professor of Political Science and History at the Lebanese American University, and the American University of Beirut. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Cairo University, and a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Wissenshaftskolleg, Berlin. His books, papers and articles focus on the history, politics, social movements, political philosophy, folklore, and art in the Arab World. Traboulsi’s translations include Edward Said’s memoir,
Out of Place|, as well as Said's
Humanism and Democratic Critique|. Traboulsi's most recent publication is
A History of Modern Lebanon| (in English and Arabic, 2007). Traboulsi, a long time journalist, is a columnist for
As-Safir Daily| and chief editor of
Bidayat|, a new quarterly magazine launched last year.