Akram Fouad Khater Explained

Akram Fouad Khater
Native Name:	أكرم فؤاد خاطر
Native Name Lang:	ar
Birth Date:	3 December 1960
Birth Place:	Lebanon
Alma Mater:	University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California, Berkeley
Occupation:	Professor, historian, author
Known For:	Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Lebanese Studies

Akram Fouad Khater (Arabic: أكرم فؤاد خاطر; born December 3, 1960)^{[1] [2]} is a Lebanese-born American professor, historian, and author.^[3] He serves as a professor of history, and the director of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University (NCSU).^{[4] [5] [6]} He specializes in the history of Lebanon,^[7] Lebanese Studies and diaspora, the Middle Eastern history,^[8] and Arab relations.

Biography

Akram Fouad Khater was born on December 3, 1960, in Lebanon. He immigrated to the United States in 1978, during the Lebanese Civil War. Khater received a B.S. degree from California State Polytechnic University, an M.A. degree in 1987 from the University of California, Santa Cruz,^[9] and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.^[10]

He is currently developing an undergraduate and master's program on teaching high school world history.^[11] He received the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award for 1998–1999, and the NCSU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 1999–2000.

Khater produced the PBS documentary, Cedars in the Pines (2012) about the Lebanese community in North Carolina.

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Khater, Akram Fouad . She Married Silk: A Rewriting of Peasant History in 19th Century Mount Lebanon . University of California, Berkeley . 1993 . dissertation.
• Book: Khater, Akram Fouad . Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 . University of California Press . 2001 . 9780520227408 . Berkeley, CA. ^{[12] [13] [14]}
• Book: Khater, Akram Fouad . Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East . Houghton Mifflin . 2004 . 9780395980675 . Boston, MA.
• Book: Khater, Akram Found . Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in Christian Middle East . Syracuse University Press . 2011 . 9780815650577 . Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. ^{[15] [16]}

Articles, chapters

• Khater . Akram Fouad . November 1986 . Egyptian Feminism Today . The Middle East . 148 . 17–18.
• Khater . Akram Fouad . Imbaba: The Camel Market of Cairo . . Antoine Gerard (photography) . Aramcoworld . 1989 . 2376-1075.
• Khater . Akram Fouad . 23 April 2009 . "House" to "Goddess of the House": Gender, Class, and Silk in 19th-century Mount Lebanon . International Journal of Middle East Studies . 28 . 3 . 325–348 . 10.1017/S0020743800063480. 162375282 .

External links

• http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/akhater/personal/
• Video: Cedars In The Pines (PBS, 2012)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- . WorldCat Identities.
2. Web site: Khater, Akram Fouad, 1960– . 2022-05-16 . The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
3. News: 2003-02-06 . Peace panel . B15 . The News and Observer . 2022-05-16.
4. Web site: Talass . Rawaa . 2021-01-21 . Virtual exhibit 'Turath' explores artistic impact of Arabs in the US . 2022-05-16 . Arab News . en . North Carolina State University’s Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. The center’s director is Lebanese professor of history Dr. Akram Khater, who arrived in the US in 1978 shortly after the outbreak of the civil war..
5. Web site: Shipman . Matt . Interactive tool offers window into history of Arab-Americans in NYC . 2022-05-16 . phys.org . en.
6. Web site: 2013-09-13 . Syria's War Hits Home for Immigrants . https://web.archive.org/web/20210505140041/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/130913-syrian-americans-damascus-jews-alawites-war-immigrant . dead . May 5, 2021 . 2022-05-16 . National Geographic . en.
7. Web site: Ustundag . Ezgi . October 2, 2012 . A Question of Middle East Politics: 'Phoenician, Lebanese, or Arab?' . 2022-05-16 . Duke Today . en.
8. Web site: July 11, 2012 . New Texts Out Now: Akram Khater, Embracing the Divine: Gender, Passion, and Politics in the Christian Middle East . 2022-05-16 . Jadaliyya - جدلية . en.
9. News: 1986-05-20 . Peace will come when the whiskey is gone . 3 . Santa Cruz Sentinel . 2022-05-16.
10. Web site: November 18, 2020 . Romey Lynchings Screening with Akram Khater . 2022-05-16 . UChicago Arts, The University of Chicago.
11. Web site: Houghton Mifflin College – OnLine Catalog – Author BIO Page . 2008-01-05 . 2007-02-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070216183727/http://college.hmco.com/CollegeCatalog/CatalogController?cmd=AuthorBio&subcmd=Bio&AuthorId=12427 . dead .
12. Pollard . Lisa . 2002-01-01 . Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920 . History: Reviews of New Books . 30 . 4 . 173 . 10.1080/03612759.2002.10526243 . 151463752 . 0361-2759.
13. Chatty . Dawn . 2003 . Review of Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920 . Journal of Islamic Studies . 14 . 1 . 79–81 . 10.1093/jis/14.1.79 . 26199848 . 25373226 . 4212858 . 0955-2340.
14. Web site: Sbaiti . Nadya . May 2003 . Akram Fouad Khater. Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv+257 pp. Map, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-22739-5; $22.50 (paper), ISBN 0-520-22740-9 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070727144440/http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.cgi?path=244011057184597 . July 27, 2007 . H-Net Reviews.
15. Grafton . David D. . 2013-09-01 . Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East. By Akram Fouad Khater. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 238. $39.95.) . The Historian . 75 . 3 . 548–549 . 10.1111/hisn.12016_4 . 144291118 . 0018-2370.
16. Robson . Laura . 2012 . Review of Embracing the Divine: Passion and Politics in the Christian Middle East . Review of Middle East Studies . 46 . 1 . 123–125 . 10.1017/S2151348100003219 . 41762504 . 157260347 . 2151-3481.