Malek Abisaab

Malek Abisaab is an Associate Professor of History at the Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He specializes in Modern Middle Eastern history, focusing on social and political transformations in Islamic societies, with particular emphasis on gender, labor, and nation-state formation in Lebanon and the broader Arab world.

Education

• PhD, Binghamton University (SUNY), 2001
• MA, City University of New York, 1992
• BA, Lebanese University, Beirut, 1982

Research Interests

• Modern Middle Eastern history
• Colonialism and the nation-state
• Women and resistance
• Women, work, and family in global perspective
• Women and war
• Wahhabi Islam
• Labor and gender in the Arab world
• Muslim women, modernity, and Islamic movements

Current Projects

• Syrian-Lebanese women and civil wars
• Female domestic labor in Lebanon
• Islamic movements
• Peasant and labor unrests in Lebanon during and after the French colonial period
• Co-authoring a work on the Shi`ite of Lebanon

Contact Details

• Office: Leacock Building, Room 620
• Address: Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University, 855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7, Canada
• Office Hours: Mondays, 12-2 PM & by appointment