New York University
Department of History
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Zachary Lockman

Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies , History
Harvard University, Ph. D., 1983

Email:  zl1@nyu.edu

Areas of Research/Interest: Modern Middle Eastern history.

Select Publications:

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

"Explorations in the Field: Lost Voices and Emerging Practices in Egypt, 1882-1914," in Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions eds. Israeli Gershoni, Hakan Erdem, and Ursula Wokoeck (Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2002).

"Arab Workers and Arab Nationalism in Palestine: A View from Below," in Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East eds. James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996).

Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, with Joel Beinin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).

"Imagining the Working Class: Culture, Nationalism and Class Formation in Egypt, 1899-1914," Poetics Today, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 157-90.

Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993).

"Railway Workers and Relational History: Arabs and Jews in British-Ruled Palestine," Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 35, no. 3 (July 1993), pp. 601-627.

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