topoi

islamic and arab studies

medieval, ottoman, and modern legal theory

general economic history & political economy

approaches to history & methodology

photography

la syrie au présent

aleppo/halab

weblog/retreat

zghazza@luc.edu

vitae

[pdf]

syllabi

iraq: aberration of a nation-state

middle east on film

history and the social sciences

approaches to history (methodology)

history of legal systems

history of american law

crime and punishment

the west and the world

western civilization since the seventeenth century

antisemitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism

early islamic states and societies

modern middle east

kinship in the middle east

arab-israeli conflict

rome courses

asia on film

methodologies

projects

political economy of damascus in the nineteenth century (in french, 1993).

the grammars of adjudication: the economics of judicial decision making in fin-de-siècle ottoman beirut and damascus (ifpo beirut, 2007). [contents] [where to buy?]

the ideal of punishment: criminal court procedures in contemporary syria (in preparation).

topographies of cities: a photographic portfolio (in preparation).

princeton's institute for advanced study fellowship

fall 2008 - summer 2009

bloc-notes

the grammars of adjudication: introduction to a just completed project

aleppo university 2003-05

this is not a war (july-august 2006)

the insane shepherd-who-writes (november 2004)

jacques derrida (october 2004)

ignorance (january 2004)

private property (august 2003)

reality in italian (and iranian) neorealism (july 2003)

opinion

the future of federalism (may 2005)

fundamentalisms (november 2004)

mirror imams (august 2004)

a question of sovereignty? (june 2004)

were we wrong? (june 2004)

defacement (may 2004)

democracy without labor (january 2004)

capitalist modernity (october 2003)

what went wrong? (october 2003)

aberrations of nations-states (september 2003)

partisans of civil wars (july 2003)

dead portraits (july 2003)

resistance or civil war? (july 2003)

the pitfalls of the nation-state (june 2003)

the myth of the state (june 2003)

anger management (april 2003)

american re-baathification of iraq (march 2003)

federalism in iraq? (march 2003)

lonely crowds (february 2003)

generative grammar (february 2003)

federalism-in-installments (december 2002)

the element of crime (november 2002)

bailouts (august 2002)

lonely tribes (august 2002)

the nervous system (july 2002)

the new spirit of capitalism (april 2002)

the unbearable lightness of the bi-national state (april 2002)

american nomos (march 2002)

hans georg gadamer (march 2002)

viaggio in italia: napoli (february 2002)

letter to the chair (february 2002)

pierre bourdieu (january 2002)

interpretations at war (november 2001)

the anthropology of war (october 2001)

islamic histories (october 2001)

the grammar of civilizations (october 2001)

the power of the image (september 2001)

loft story (july 2001)

academe (june 2001)

the double identity of labor (june 2001)

road to damascus (may 2001)

dismal economics (april 2001)

hors-champ

ceci n'est pas une guerre (summer 2006)

fragments (aleppo, spring—summer 2004)

existenz (aleppo, fall 2003—spring 2004)

relationships (aleppo, fall 2003—spring 2004)

lumières (beirut, summer 2003—summer 2004)

mouths wide shut (august 2003)

paris (june 2003)

chicago (june 2003)