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Michael Provence teaches modern Middle East history, focusing on the 20th century Arab East. He received the B.A in History from U.C. Berkeley in 1994 and the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001. During 2017-2018 he was Chercheur Résident (Research Fellow in Residence), Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes, France. In 2010-11 and 2014 Provence was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany.
He is the author of two books and many articles. The books are The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism (2005), also translated and widely reviewed in Arabic as al-Thawra al-Suriyya al-Wataniyya, and The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2017), selected a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2018.
Provence lived and studied over the course of many years in several Middle Eastern countries, particularly Syria and Lebanon between 1998 and 2006. He returns as often as possible.
Photo Essay on the Ottoman Train system http://almashriq.hiof.no/syria/300/380/385/railways/ottoman_trains/
Photo Essay on Syria http://almashriq.hiof.no/syria/900/910/919/damascus_hawran/
Documentary on the Emergence of the Modern Middle East http://www.alternatefocus.org/trilogyprologue.html
Colonial rule, resistance, and nationalism in the Arab Ottoman successor states of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. US policy in the post-Colonial Middle East.