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talks

January 4th, 2024 (Co-organizer)
137th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, California
Panel: Development from the Peripheries: Perspectives from Postwar Guatemala, Lebanon, and Senegal
Paper: “Rural Flight Has Thrown Too Many Uprooted People into the City!” Investigating State Development and Regional Planning in Rural Lebanon, 1958–70

November 3rd, 2023 (Co-organizer)
57th Annual meeting of The Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada 
Panel: At the Edges of Lebanon: Communities and the Spatial Politics of Infrastructural Development
Paper: Rural Lebanon: On Land Dispossession, Development, and Infrastructure 1958-1970

October 28th, 2023
10th Biennial Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
Panel: Geographies of Place and Race
Paper: “Rural flight has thrown too many uprooted people into the city!”: An Investigation of Regional Planning and Development in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970

December 4th, 2022
56th Annual meeting of The Middle East Studies Association
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Panel: Climate, Water, and Ecology
Paper: Planning National Unity: An Investigation of State Development and Modernization in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970

October 22nd, 2022
19th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANNING HISTORY Society for American City & Regional Planning History, City University of New York
Panel: Planning Beyond the City
Paper: Planning National Unity: An Investigation of State Development and Modernization in Rural Lebanon 1958-1970

April 21st, 2021
Civil War Rememberance Week, AUB Secular Club
American University of Beirut 
Panel Title: The Lebanese Civil War: A History of Intergenerational Trauma.

April 10th, 2021
3rd Annual meeting of CaliMENA Workshop
University of California San Diego Paper:  Bureaucratizing Sectarianism: Investigating Lebanese State Modernization and Development 1958-1970.

May 8th, 2019
2nd Annual meeting of CaliMENA Workshop,  
University of California Los Angeles
Paper: ‘Lebanon beyond the sea’: The political and social transformationof the Lebanese diaspora community in the United States 1932-1943.




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