Stuart Schaar

Background

Stuart was born in 1937, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Education

Attended City College of New York City, graduating with honors in 1958. Earned Ph.D. from Princeton University, a joint program in MIddle East and North African Studies and Western European history. Ph.D. thesis, 1966, "Conflict and Change in 19th Century Morocco. Thesis advisor Roger Le Tourneau. Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, (Madison), Comparative Tropical History Program within the History Department 1965-67.

Career

American University Field Staff Associate 1966-67, posted in North Africa, Middle East, and East Africa. Sept. 1967-. Sept. 2007, Associate and Full Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Recipient of 2 1/2 year Ford Foundation Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship: Six months reading in the social sciences; 2 years dissertation research in Morocco; Several Professional Staff (faculty union) fellowships; 5 McArthur Fellowships to work on the Algerian Civil War of the 1980s: produced a film with the Algerian director, Merzac Allouache on Why so many Algerian journalists were killed in the civil war, Shown on Arte TV and reviewed favorably in the Parisian newspaper Liberation; Organized conferences in Princeton University and London on the civil war and published a study with Abdallah Hammoudi on the same subject.

Works

• book

  • The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Chaging of the Middle East

    (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interl...)

  • Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History

    (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. co-edited wi...)

  • Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age

    (NY: Columbia University Press, 2015. Long Listed by U.S. ...)

  • The Middle East and Islamic World Reader

    (NY: Grove Press, 3rd ed., 2012. Co-edited/authored with M...)