Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib is a historian of the modern Middle East. She is the author of A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford University Press, 2017). She earned her Ph.D. in History of Culture at the University of Chicago (2010), taught modern Middle East history at the University of Oxford, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oslo and the EUME program of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Currently she is working on a project that explores folklore in the twentieth-century Levant in relation to the global circulation of knowledge, politics, and aesthetics.
Background
Postdoctoral fellow (2012-2015), Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
Visiting Lecturer (2011-2012), Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2011), "Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe," Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Ph.D. History of Culture (2010), University of Chicago
M.A. in Social Sciences (2002), University of Amsterdam
Bach. of Arch. (1998), American University of Beirut
Teaching Experience
University of Oxford: "The History of the Middle East, 1860-1971," (M.Phil.); "The Middle East in the Age of Empire, 1882-1971," (undergraduate); "Nationalism and Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1961," (undergraduate); Supervision of undergraduate and M.Phil. theses.
University of Chicago: "Culture of Modernity in the Middle East," (undergraduate & graduate).
American University of Beirut: Introductory Arabic, Intensive Summer Program, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.
Reading proficiency in Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Norwegian, Ottoman Turkish.
Publications
A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford University Press, 2017).
"Sanctity across the Border: Pilgrimage Routes and State Control in Mandate Lebanon and Palestine," The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, Schayegh and Arsan eds. (Routledge, 2015), 787-813.
"The Material Life of the Ottoman Middle Class," History Compass 10/8 (2012): 584-595.
"Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut," International Journal of Middle East Studies 43 (2011): 475-492.
"Researching Domestic Life in Late Ottoman Beirut," Syrian Studies Association Newsletter 5/2 (2009).
"Quarantine and Trade: The Case of Beirut, 1831-1840," International Journal of Maritime History 19 (2007): 223-243.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2021). Hilma Granqvist’s Discovery of the Holy Land. In Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud & Bohlin, Anna (Ed.), Tracing the Jerusalem Code III. Vol. 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750 - ca. 1920). Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110639476. p. 512–517. Full text in Research Archive
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2020). Involuntary History: Writing Levantines into the Nation. Contemporary Levant. ISSN 2058-1831. 5(1), p. 44–53. doi: 10.1080/20581831.2020.1710674. Full text in Research Archive
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). Citizens Into Sects: The Arab State and Its Minorities. Fortid. ISSN 1504-1913. 14(4).
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2015). Sanctity across the Border: Pilgrimage Routes and State Control in Mandate Lebanon and Palestine. In Schayegh, Cyrus & Arsan, Andrew (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-13-880058-8. p. 787–813.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2012). The Material Life of the Ottoman Middle Class. History Compass. ISSN 1478-0542. 10(8), p. 584–595. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00866.x.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2011). Taste and Class in Late Ottoman Beirut. International Journal of Middle East Studies. ISSN 0020-7438. 43(3), p. 475–492. doi: 10.1017/S0020743811000626.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2008). Hanna Mina (1924- ). In Al-Mallah, Majd Yaser & Fitzpatrick, Coeli (Ed.), Twentieth-century Arab writers. Gale Cengage Learning. ISSN 9780787681647.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2007). Quarantine and Trade: The Case of Beirut, 1831-1840. International Journal of Maritime History. ISSN 0843-8714. 19(2), p. 223–244. doi: 10.1177/084387140701900210.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804799799. 280 p.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2021). En palestinsk vår. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
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Pepe, Teresa; Vikør, Knut S.; Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul; Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud & Utvik, Bjørn Olav (2021). Reflections on the 2011 Arab Uprisings from Norway: Ten Years After.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). The Nation-State in Global Governance: A Historical Approach.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). Post-Ottoman Regionalism in the Levant.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). Consuming the Nahda; or How the Question of Labor Fractures the Self-Image of the Late Ottoman Middle Class.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). Being Arab and Modern: "Westernization" and Authenticity in Ottoman Beirut.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2017). The Sons of Qahtan in South Lebanon: Amateur History Writing at the Periphery of the State.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2016). Den tidligere historien frem til det osmanske rikets fall.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2016). Work and Labor: Palestinian Embroidery in Exile.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2015). Den tidligere historien frem til det osmanske rikes fall.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2015). Everyday Resistance: Representing Conflict in Hezbollah’s “Tourist Landmark” in South Lebanon.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2015). Fragmented Publics: Class, Consumption, and Leisure in a Late Ottoman City.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2015). The Politics of Palestinian Folklore: Embroidery in the Diaspora.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2015). Review of "Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries". Iranian Studies. ISSN 0021-0862. 48(2), p. 504–507. doi: 10.1080/00210862.2014.1000626.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2014). From Mleeta to Mar Ilyas: Political and Religious Commemorative Sites in South Lebanon.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2014). Manufacturing Tastes in Late Ottoman Beirut.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2014). Jews in South Lebanon, Shi‘a in North Palestine: Religious Identity during the Mandate Period.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2014). Jewish and Shi‘a Pilgrimages in South Lebanon during the Mandate Period.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul & Mestyan, Adam (2013). The Politics of Taste in the Middle East, 1800s-1900s.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2013). Consuming Tastes: Local Labor and New Commodities in an Ottoman Port-City.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2013). Sanctity across the Border: Pilgrimage Routes and State Control in Mandate Lebanon and Palestine.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2013). Involuntary History: Writing Levantines into the Nation.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2013). Religious Communities, Popular Beliefs, and Shared Religious Practices in the Levant.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2013). Review of "Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880". International Journal of Islamic Architecture. ISSN 2045-5895. 2(1), p. 216–218.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2011). Mangfold, ikke multikulturalisme. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
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Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul (2010). Demonstrerte for sekularisme. Ny tid. ISSN 0803-3498.
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Colleuille, Erlend Lunde; Waage, Hilde Henriksen; Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul & Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2021). An Impossible Balancing Act: France and the Lebanese Civil War, 1975–1982. University of Oslo.