Max Weiss is an American scholar and translator, specialising in the culture and history of the Middle East.[1] He studied biology and history at University of California, Berkeley before moving on to Stanford University, where he completed his PhD in modern Middle Eastern history in 2007. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 2010.
Weiss is the author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon (2010) and Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba‘thist Syria (2022). He is also a noted translator of contemporary Arabic literature into English. His translation of Abbas Beydoun's novel Blood Test won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award.
Weiss is also a two-time fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows.