Coffee will be served at 3:30pm. The event will start at 3:45pm.
Title
Syria and the Nakba
Speaker
Nathan Citino is the Barbara Kirkland Chiles Professor of History at Rice University. He specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations in the Middle East and has written on the history of oil diplomacy and economic development, particularly in the Arab world.
Dr. Citino’s most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. It received the 2018 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa‘ud, and the Making of US - Saudi Relations (Indiana University Press, 2002, 2nd ed. 2010). Dr. Citino has published articles in journals including Diplomacy & Statecraft, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Business History Review, Arab Studies Journal, and Cold War History. His essay on frontiers and borderlands appears in the volume Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. Dr. Citino graduated with a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.
About the International History Seminar
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