Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty
Franck Salameh
Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Department Chair
Franck Salameh
Ph.D.
Contact
Lyons Hall 210
Telephone: 617-552-3915
Email: franck.salameh@bc.edu
Education
Courses
States and Minorities in the Middle East
Language, Memory and Identity in the Middle East
Modern Middle Eastern and Arabic Literature
Near Eastern Civilizations
Research Interests
Middle East Cultural and Intellectual History, and History of Ideas:
Formation of the Modern Middle East
19th and 20th century literature and cultural representation in the Levant and France
Cultural History and Memory (Modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel)
Arabism and Zionism
Levantine Identities
Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism
Minority Cultures
Language and Identity in the Modern Middle East:
Ideology, Dialectology, and Language Tensions
Modern Standard Arabic and Hebrew Revival
Teaching Arabic as a Second Language
Levantine Literature (Arabic, Dialectal, French, English, and Hebrew)
Biography
Franck Salameh’s fields of specialization are Minorities in the Middle East, Contemporary Middle Eastern History, History of Ideas and Political Thought, and the Literary, Linguistic, Cultural, and Intellectual Traditions of the States of the Levant. His interests include Linguistic Nationalism, Arabism, Zionism, Francophonie, and the history of French and French Missionaries in the Eastern Mediterranean. Salameh is also a memoirist, anthologist, biographer, and translator of poetry and prose from and into Arabic, French, English, Vernacular Lebanese, and Hebrew.
Representative Publications
"Lebanon’s Jewish Community; Fragments of Lives Arrested", London-UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019, pp. 227.
“A Man for Others; The Life and Times of Lebanese Jesuit Henri Lammens (1862-1937)”, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Volume 9, Issue 2, August 2018, 213-236.
“Christians of the Holy Land—Exodus, Disintegration, and Ideological Necrophilia,” in John Eibner (ed.) The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 211-235.
“Fragments of Lives Arrested; A Memoir of Lebanon’s Jewish Community", Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 52, Issue 4, July 2016, pp. 567-587
Charles Corm: An Intellectual biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician",Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, June 2015, pp. 282.
Language Memory and Identity in the Middle East; The Case for Lebanon, Lanham MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, May 2010, pp. 332.