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. His latest book, Age of Coexistence (University of California Press, 2019), was praised by Peter Beinart and Rashid Khalidi, among others. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Houston Chronicle, The Yale Review, Jewish Currents, and Aeon, as well as on various Arabic media, and he has appeared on numerous television and radio shows including Al Jazeera, TRT International, and NPR’s Morning Edition.
