Michael Provence
Chercheur associé à l’IREMAM (2024-2028)
Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Contact : mprovence[at]ucsd.edu
RECHERCHE
Discipline : Histoire
Spécialité : Histoire du Ottoman et mandataire, Levant contemporain
Terrains : Syrie, Liban, Mondes arabes et musulmans, Proche-Orient
Membre du pôle Histoire des mondes arabes et musulmans
PARCOURS ACADÉMIQUE
1998-2002 - Chercheur associé, IFEAD.
2001- Ph.D. History, University of Chicago, with Distinction.
1998-2000 - Auditeur, Université de Damas.
1997 - M.A. History, University of Chicago.
1994 - B.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, with High Distinction.
PUBLICATIONS
Ouvrages
The Last Ottoman Generation and the making of the Modern Middle East, June 2017, Cambridge University Press. Fifth printing, 2019.
Son Osmanli Kuşaği ve Modern Ortadoğu’nun Oluşumu. Turkish translation of The Last Ottoman Generation, Kronik Kitap, 2021.
al-Jīl al-cUthmāni al-Akhīr Arabic. Translation of The Last Ottoman Generation, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha/Beirut, 2025. With corrections, additions, and a new forward for the Arabic edition.
Büyük Suriye İsyanı: Arap Milliyetçiliĝinin Yükselişi, Turkish translation of The Great Syrian Revolt, 2020, trans. Nida Nur Yüksel,
Pınar Yayınları. With corrections, additions, and a new forward for the Turkish edition.
Al-Thawra al-Sūriyya al-Wataniyya, (Arabic translation of the Great Syrian Revolt). Revised and updated with additional material, including maps and photos, for the Arabic edition. Trans. Wisam Dudar, Cadmus Press, Damascus, 2012, second edition, 2018.
The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, University of Texas press, Modern Middle East Series, no. 22, 2005.
Articles et chapitres
“Gaza and the Depressing Continuity of Colonial Violence”, Syrian Studies Association Newsletter, Fall 2024.
“Rebels and Rivals in a Syrian Town: Musā al-Naddāf, Syrian Nationalist Rebel”, Colonial Fugitive, West Virginia Grocer, 1899-1963, with co-author Reem Bailony. Under review.
“Post-Ottoman Dreams and Nightmares in the Mandate Middle East,” in Ebru Boyar and K.M.Fleet, eds., Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period, Brill 2022.
“Revisiting Hawran,” in A Festschrift in Honor of Abdul-Rahim Abu Husayn, Suleiman Ali Mourad, and Tylor Brands, eds. AUB Press, 2024.
“A Man of the Frontier: Ramadan Shallash and the Making of the Post-Ottoman Arab East”, in Ramazan Hakki Öztan and Alp Yenen, eds., Age of Rogues Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires, Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
“Un Siècle de conflits et de connexions : la Grippe de 1918 et le Coronavirus de 2020”, in Shigesa Kuriyama, Ota de Leonardis, et al, eds, Covid-19: Tour du Monde, Paris: Editions,Manucius, 2021.
“The Last Ottoman Generation and the making of the Modern Middle East,” in Turkish Area Studies Review, Bulletin of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies, no.33, 2019.
“What was “Druze” about opposition to Adib Shishakli in 1954?”, In The Druze: A Thousand Years of Diversity, edited by Abdul-Rahim Abu Husayn and Makram Rabah, AUB Press, Lebanon, forthcoming.
“The Levant Mandates”, in the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle East and North African History edited by Jens Hanssen and Amal Ghazal, Oxford University Press 2021. UK.
“1916 in the Middle East and the Global War for Empire”, in 1916 in Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment,
edited by Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, and Gearóid Barry, Routledge, 2018.
"Tarika al-cUthmāniyīn bacd hazīmatum fī 1918", (“Legacies of Ottoman Defeat after 1918),” (in Arabic), in The Great War in the Middle East, edited by Wajih Kawtharani, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Press, Lebanon and Qatar, 2016.
“Kamal Salibi and the Historians of the Arab East (in Arabic)”, in Kamāl Salībī: Al-Insān wal-Mū'arrikh, edited by Abdul-Rahim Abu Husayn, 2016. Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Press, Lebanon and Qatar.
“Surviving the Cold War at AUB: the Thomas Aquinas Affair of 1966”, in AUB: A Century and a Half, edited by Nadia Shaikh. AUB Press, 2016. AUB Press, Lebanon.
“Kamal Salibi and the Historiography of Memory in the Arab East”, in In The House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi, edited by Abdul-Rahim Abu Husayn , Tarif Khalidi, and Sulieman Mourad, AUB Press, 2017. Lebanon.
“Legitimidad y discurso entre el estado y la revolución en Siria”, in Mundo árabe: levantamientos populares, contextos, crisis y reconfiguraciones, Gilberto Conde, Camila Pastor and Marta Tawil (eds.) México: El Colegio de México and CIDE (2016), (in Spanish), Mexico.
“French Mandate Counterinsurgency and the Repression of the Great Syrian Revolt”, in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, edited by Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan, 2015. UK.
“Stateless Revolutionaries and the Aftermath of the Ottoman Great War”, in Journal of Modern European History, vol. 13, no. 3 (2015) Germany.
“Unraveling the Syrian Revolution”, special edition on the Arab Spring of the trilingual (Spanish, French, English) journal Regions & Cohesion, vol. 2, no. 3, 2012.
“Late Ottoman State Education”, in Religion, ethnicity, and Contested Nationhood in the Former Ottoman Space, edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Brill, 2012.
“The Roots of the Security State in Syria”, in al-Adab no. 8-9, (in Arabic). Co-authored with Jamal Wakim, August, 2011. (Arabic version of “Colonial Genealogies of the Post-Colonial Arab State”).
“Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Arab East,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 43 [IJMES] special edition, June 2011, 205-225.
“The Unruly Fringes of Empire: Jabal Druze and Jamal Pasha during the Great War”, Archivum Ottomanicum, Volume 26, (2009).
“Liberal Colonialism and Martial Law in French Mandate Syria”, In Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Christoph Schumann, Brill, 2008.
“Ottoman and French Mandate Land Registers for the Region of Damascus”, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Volume 39, Number 1, June 2005.
“Talal Rizk: A Syrian Engineer in the Gulf”, In Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, 2nd edition, edited by Edmund Burke and David Yaghoubian, University of California Press, 2005.
“Druze Shaykhs, Arab Nationalists, and Grain Merchants in Jabal Hawran”, In The Druze: Realities and Perceptions edited by Kamal Salibi, Druze Heritage Foundation, 2005.
“A Nationalist Rebellion Without Nationalists? Popular Mobilizations in Mandatory Syria, 1925-1926”, In The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective, edited by Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett, Brill, 2004.
“Identifying Rebels: Insurgents in the Countryside of Damascus, 1925-26”, In From the Syrian Lands to the States of Syria and Lebanon, edited by Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, Beiruter Texte und Studien vol. 96, Wuerzburg 2004.
“An Investigation into the Local Origins of the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925”, In France, Syrie et Liban : les ambiguïtés et les dynamiques de la relation mandataire, edited by Nadine Méouchy, IFEAD, 2002.
Recensions d’ouvrages
Mostafa Minawi, Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire. Stanford University Press, 2022.
Cyrus Schayegh, The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World in the International, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
Benjamin C. Fortna, The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent, in the Journal of Modern History, Volume 91, Number 1, (March 2019),pp, 232-233.
Elizabeth Thompson, Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East, in the American Historical Review, vol. 119, issue 4, June 2014.
Keith Watenpaugh, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class, in the American Historical Review, vol. 114, issue 4, October 2012.
Autres publications
Encyclopedia entry, Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd Edition, “Ḥawrān”, in Syria, modern period.
Op-Ed: “There are still 14 million displaced Syrians in crisis. We must listen to their stories”, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 April 2023.
Op-Ed: “First World War Sowed Seeds of Lasting Conflict”, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 November 2018
Op-Ed: “From Japanese Internment to the Muslim Ban” with Simeon Man. San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 February 2017.
Op-Ed: “Iraq War: Ten Years of Consequences”, UT San Diego (Formerly San Diego Union-Tribune), 8 March 2013
Op-Ed: “Two Eras of Revolution, A Generation Apart”, San Diego Union Tribune, 24 February 2011.
Op-Ed: “America’s Real Choices in Iraq” With James Rauch, UCSD Economics Department, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 October 2007.
Op-Ed: “A Year After the Lebanon War” San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2007.
Op-Ed: “How the U.S. Can Withdraw from Iraq” San-Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2005.
Op-Ed: “The Promised Peace in the Middle East?”, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 January 2005.
Op-Ed: “America and the Future of Iraq”, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 September 2004.
Op-Ed: “When Other Western Powers Failed in the Mideast”, Dallas Morning News, 14 April 2003.