Samir Khalaf

Samir Khalaf is a Lebanese sociologist.

Life

He was born in Beirut on October 14, 1933. He is married to Roseanne Khalaf and has two children. Khalaf has written extensively on the Arab world and on Lebanon in particular. The majority of themes in his work include sexuality in the Arab world, the Lebanese Civil War, Urbanization, and the role of the Protestant missionaries in the Levant. Until 2017, he was a professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut, and has also been a director of the Centre for Behavioural Research there since 1994. He retired in 2017, keeping a part-time teaching position at the University. 
Khalaf received his bachelor's degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut in 1955, and later his MA in Sociology in 1957. Furthermore, he obtained an MA in Economics and Sociology in 1959, and PhD in Sociology in 1964 from Princeton University.

Publications 

1979    Persistence And Change In 19th Century Lebanon (AUB and Syracuse    University Press).
1987    Lebanon’s Predicament (Columbia University Press).
1993    Beirut Reclaimed (Beirut: Al-Nahar Press).
1993    (With Philip S. Khoury) Recovering Beirut (Leiden: E.J. Brill).
2001        Cultural Resistance: Global Encounters In The Middle East  (London: Saqi Books).

2002        Lubnan Fi Madar Al’Unf (Arabic Version of Civil and Uncivil Violence: Dar An-Nahar, 2002).
2006    The Heart Of Beirut (London: Saqi Books).

2012    Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground (London: Saqi Books).

References

Category:1933 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Beirut
Category:Lebanese sociologists