Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies Faculty

Franck Salameh

Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Department Chair

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Franck Salameh

Ph.D.

Contact

Lyons Hall 210

Telephone: 617-552-3915

Email: franck.salameh@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of Central Florida
  • M.A., Boston University
  • Ph.D., Brandeis University

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) 

Curriculum Vitae

Profile

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.

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