Publications

2022

Personal Connections and Regional Networks: Cross-Border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria.
Personal Connections and Regional Networks: Cross-Border Ford Automobile Distribution in French Mandate Syria.

 

in Jordi Tejel, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan eds., Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

2021

2020

100 Years of Greater Lebanon.

History Today, 3 September 2020

Mandatory Expertise After the League of Nations Mandates: Interconnections and New Directions.
Mandatory Expertise After the League of Nations Mandates: Interconnections and New Directions.

 

in Philippe Bourmaud, Norig Neveu and Chantal Verdeil, eds., 'EXPERTS ET EXPERTISE DANS LES MANDATS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES NATIONS : FIGURES, CHAMPS, OUTILS' (Paris: Presses de l'Inalco, 2020), pp. 333-358.

2019

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East Special Issue: The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East Special Issue: The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 39, no. 1 (May 2019)

The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed: From Joyriding to Jamming, and from Racing to Raiding.
The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed: From Joyriding to Jamming, and from Racing to Raiding.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 39, no. 1 (May 2019)

2018

From Beirut to Berlin (via Geneva): The New International History, Middle East Studies and the League of Nations.
From Beirut to Berlin (via Geneva): The New International History, Middle East Studies and the League of Nations.

Contemporary European History, July 2018, 1–19. doi:10.1017/S0960777318000231.

2017

Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East.
Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East.

Humanity Journal 8, no. 2 (2017), 231-246.

2016

Why is the United Nations still so misunderstood?

The Conversation, 6 October 2016, co-written with Alanna O Malley

The phosphate archipelago: Imperial mining and global agriculture in French North Africa.
The phosphate archipelago: Imperial mining and global agriculture in French North Africa.

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook. Volume 57, Issue 1, Pages 187–214, DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2016-0009, May 2016

(Auto)-Mobility in the Global Middle East - Part 2.

Jadaliyya E-Zine, Cities Page, 22 February 2016

(Auto)-Mobility in the Global Middle East - Part 1.

Jadaliyya E-Zine, Cities Page, 9 February 2016

2015

Universities at the Crossroads

I have co-edited, with Ann Thomson and Stefan Nygard, a series of short articles in The Conversation on the history of the relationship between universities, states and markets. March 2015.

2014

Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The  Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations.
Diaspora Politics and Developmental Empire: The Syro-Lebanese at the League of Nations.

Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 21 No. 1, (Spring 2013), 166-190.

2013

The ‘Huvelin Mission’: economic morality and the French imperial project in the Mashriq, 1919-1920..
The ‘Huvelin Mission’: economic morality and the French imperial project in the Mashriq, 1919-1920..

Monde(s): histoire, espaces, relations, (4), Vol. 2 No. 4 (Fall 2013), 83-103.

2012

La Syrie et l’action international (in French).

Huffington Post France, 15 December 2012.  Written with Giorgio Potí.

2010

Bailleux, Julie, “How Europe became Law: The First International Academic Conference on the ECSC (Milan-Stresa, 1957)”..

Revue française de science politique (english), 2010/2 Vol. 60, p. 67-90.
Translation

Braconnier Céline and Dormagen, Jean-Yves, “Does an ethnic divide structure voting behaviors in working-class neighborhoods?”..

Revue française de science politique (english), 2010/1 Vol. 60, p. 113-138.
Translation

No year

Compassion and Connections: Feeding Beirut and Assembling Mandate Rule in 1919.
Compassion and Connections: Feeding Beirut and Assembling Mandate Rule in 1919.

 

in Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan eds., The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates (Routledge: 2015).
La Vie des Idées: La République impériale : politique et racisme d’État by Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison.
La Vie des Idées: La République impériale : politique et racisme d’État by Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison.

Simon Jackson, « Liberté, égalité, fraternité… empire », La Vie des idées, 22 juin 2009. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Liberte-egalite-fraternite-empire.html

Global Recruitment: the Wartime Origins of French Mandate Syria.
Global Recruitment: the Wartime Origins of French Mandate Syria.


in Ludivine Broch and Alison Carrol eds. France in an era of Global War 1914-1945: Occupation, Politics, Empire and Entanglements (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014).

Books & Ideas: Interlopers of Empire, by Andrew Arsan.
Books & Ideas: Interlopers of Empire, by Andrew Arsan.

Simon Jackson, « Not Quite White? The Lebanese of West Africa », Books and Ideas, 13 April 2015. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/Not-Quite-White-The-Lebanese-of-West-Africa.html