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Saree Makdisi
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Saree Makdisi (1964) is an American Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Makdisi is the author of several books on British Romanticism, which is his area of expertise, and he writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. Makdisi comes from a lineage that is well-known in academia. He is the grandson of Anis K. Makdisi (1885-1977), who was a renowned professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and the nephew of the late Edward Said.
- William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
- Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (New York and Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998);
- Marxism Beyond Marxism, jointly published by Cesare Casarino and Rebecca Karl (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)
- "An Iron Wall of Colonization: Fantasies and Realities About the Prospects for Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians." CounterPunch 26 January 2005. Accessed 14 February 2007.
- "The Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature" Biography of Anis K. Makdisi at AUB