Ussama Makdisi

Ussama Makdisi is the inaugural May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies, Professor of History, and Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of Age of Coexistence. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Houston Chronicle, The Yale Review, and Jewish Currents. He has also appeared on numerous television and radio shows including Al Jazeera, TRT International, and NPR’s Morning Edition.