topoi

islamic and arab studies

medieval, ottoman, and modern legal theory

general economic history & political economy

approaches to history & methodology

photography

la syrie au présent

aleppo/halab

zghazza@luc.edu

vitae

courses

fall 2005

history 300: iraq

history 312: islam

fall 2002

history 313: modern middle east

history 395: history and the social sciences

syllabi

projects

political economy of damascus in the nineteenth century (in french, 1993).

the grammars of adjudication: the economics of judicial decision making in fin-de-siècle ottoman beirut and damascus (forthcoming).

the ideal of punishment: criminal court procedures in contemporary syria (in preparation).

topographies of cities: a photographic portfolio (in preparation).

in order to complete a fulbright project on the syrian judiciary, no courses will be offered in fall 2003 & spring 2004; and no courses will be offered in fall 2004 & spring 2005; course offerings will resume in fall 2005.

bloc-notes

the grammars of adjudication: introduction to a just completed project

the insane shepherd-who-writes (november 2004)

jacques derrida (october 2004)

ignorance (january 2004)

private property (august 2003)

reality in italian (and iranian) neorealism (july 2003)

opinion

the future of federalism (may 2005)

fundamentalisms (november 2004)

mirror imams (august 2004)

a question of sovereignty? (june 2004)

were we wrong? (june 2004)

defacement (may 2004)

democracy without labor (january 2004)

capitalist modernity (october 2003)

what went wrong? (october 2003)

aberrations of nations-states (september 2003)

partisans of civil wars (july 2003)

dead portraits (july 2003)

resistance or civil war? (july 2003)

the pitfalls of the nation-state (june 2003)

the myth of the state (june 2003)

anger management (april 2003)

american re-baathification of iraq (march 2003)

federalism in iraq? (march 2003)

lonely crowds (february 2003)

generative grammar (february 2003)

federalism-in-installments (december 2002)

the element of crime (november 2002)

bailouts (august 2002)

lonely tribes (august 2002)

the nervous system (july 2002)

the new spirit of capitalism (april 2002)

the unbearable lightness of the bi-national state (april 2002)

american nomos (march 2002)

hans georg gadamer (march 2002)

viaggio in italia: napoli (february 2002)

letter to the chair (february 2002)

pierre bourdieu (january 2002)

interpretations at war (november 2001)

the anthropology of war (october 2001)

islamic histories (october 2001)

the grammar of civilizations (october 2001)

the power of the image (september 2001)

loft story (july 2001)

academe (june 2001)

the double identity of labor (june 2001)

road to damascus (may 2001)

dismal economics (april 2001)

hors-champ

fragments (aleppo, spring—summer 2004)

existenz (aleppo, fall 2003—spring 2004)

relationships (aleppo, fall 2003—spring 2004)

lumières (beirut, summer 2003—summer 2004)

mouths wide shut (august 2003)

paris (june 2003)

chicago (june 2003)