Farid M. Al-Salim (Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Modern Middle East and Islam History) teaches and writes about the history, politics, religion, social life and popular culture in the modern Middle East and Islamic World, with a research focus on Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. Current projects include studies of the political, religious and social powers in Central Palestine before the Ottoman Tanzimat (1516-1839), the Islamic education system in Palestine during the Mamluk and Ottoman Period, and new agricultural methods and products in late-Ottoman Palestine.

Courses Taught

Modern History of the Middle East, 1750-Present
History of Islam, 570 A.D to Present
History of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, 1897-Present
World History 111 and 112
Graduate Seminar on the emergence of the Modern Middle East
Ottoman Empire: Political, Social and Cultural History, 1300-1922
European Imperialism in the Middle East.