<h2>Steve Tamari</h2>
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<br />Assistant Professor<br /><br />Middle East
<p><br />Office Phone: 618-650-3967<br />Peck Hall Room 1212<br />E-mail:<a href="mailto:stamari@siue.edu">stamari@siue.edu</a></p>
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<h3>Areas of Research</h3>
<p>Modern Middle East<br />Ottoman Syria<br />Arab History<br />Ethnic and National Identity in Pre-Modern Times<br />Early Modern History.</p>
<h3>Classes Regularly Taught</h3>
<p>World History to 1500 (HIST 112A)<br />World History since 1500 (HIST 112B)<br />Historical Methods (HIST 301)<br />History of Islamic Middle East, 600-1800 (HIST 354A)<br />Modern Middle East since 1800 (HIST 354B)<br />Women and Gender in Islamic History (HIST 400)<br />Arab-Israeli Conflict (HIST 454)</p>
<h3>Study Aids</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.siue.edu/%7Estamari/Guidelines.html" target="_blank">Guidelines for Writing Essays</a></p>
<h3>Publications</h3>
<p>“<a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/jemh/2001/00000005/00000002/art00002" target="_blank">Ottoman Madrasas: The Multiple Lives of Educational Institutions in 18th-Century Syria</a>,” <a href="http://www.hist.umn.edu/%7Ejemh/index.html">Journal of Early Modern History</a> 5, no. 2 (2001), 99-127. [Requires login]</p>
<p>“Biography, Autobiography, and Identity in Early Modern Damascus” in Mary Anne Fay, ed., Auto/Biography and the Creation of Identity in the Middle East from the Early Modern to the Modern Period (New York, 2001), 37-49.</p>
<p><a href="http://ccas.georgetown.edu/files/who_are_arabs.pdf">"Who are the Arabs?: A Teaching Module"</a>, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.</p>
<p><a href="http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/damas.htm">"Historical Research and Resources in Damascus", Middle East Studies Association Bulletin </a>30 (1996), 10-17.</p>
<h3>Dissertation</h3>
<p>"Teaching and Learning in 18th-century Damascus: Localism and Ottomanism in an Early Modern Arab Society" (Georgetown University, 1998)</p>
<h3>Useful Links</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.siue.edu/%7Estamari/Maps.html">Maps for Middle East and Islamic History</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.siue.edu/%7Estamari/ImagesMiddleEastIslamicHistory.html">Images for Middle East and Islamic History</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.daralislam.org/">Dar al-Islam Teachers' Institute</a></p>
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