Dr Otared Haidar
My recent and ongoing research concentrates on modern Syria and the modernizing trends and enlightenment movement in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Syria and its different communities. It applies an interdisciplinary approach to view this landscape animated by the interaction between the mainstream, counter-discourse, and other minor variations, and to explore their relations, cultural production and intellectual dialogue. The analysis examines representative cultural products of that period both as modes of expression and as sites of debates about community, identity and universality. These concepts preoccupied intellectual and political movements during their time and in the following period, and exploring them can yield vital insights into present history of Syrian Society.
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