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Dr. Tylor Brand

Assistant Professor (Near & Middle Eastern Studies)

 branda@tcd.ie

 


Research Tags

  Disaster History   FAMINE   Historical Epidemiology   LEBANON   Society in Crisis   World War I

Representations

Details Date
Member of NCCA Leaving Certificate Arabic Development Group to develop second level Arabic curriculum in Irish schools 2020-2022
Consultant to the American University of Beirut's Jaffet Library on the creation of a permanent online exhibition documenting the history of WWI in Lebanon from the perspective of the Syrian Protestant College various
Delivered 14 hour Executive Education Module for the Iraqi Professional Leadership Program entitled "The History of Iraq in the 20th Century" February 23-24
Consultant to Alec Webb for BBC documentary series WWI Beyond the Trenches various
Consultant to Megaphone (media outlet) for documentary "Tahiin, tahiin: 100 sana 'ala dhikrat al-maja'a" various
Manuscript Evaluator, Cambridge University Press 1 March
Journal Reviewer, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 30 April
Journal Reviewer, al-Abhath 21 May

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
Arabic Fluent Fluent Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Medium Medium
Spanish Medium Medium Medium

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Middle Eastern Studies Association 2008 Present
Lebanese Studies Association 2018 Present
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 2022 Present
Syrian Studies Association 2023 Present
Subjective Lenses: Narrative Framing and the Making of a Disaster in the Lebanese Famine of World War I in, editor(s)Sarah Irving, Kirsty Bennett and Anne Caldwell , Tremblings and inundations: natural disasters in the history and culture of West Asia and North Africa, Winwick , White Horse Press , 2025, [Tylor Brand], Book Chapter, SUBMITTED
Tylor Brand and Bilal Orfali, In the Steps of the Sultan: Essays in Honor of Abdul Rahim Abu-Husayn, Beirut, The American University of Beirut Press, 2024, Notes: [This is a co-edited volume in honor of the prominent historian of Lebanon, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, sponsored by the Shaykh Zayed Foundation. Its anticipated publication date is September of 2023.], Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Childhood and Children in the Lebanese Famine of World War I in, editor(s)Tylor Brand and Bilal Orfali , In the Steps of the Sultan: Essays in Honor of Abdul Rahim Abu-Husayn, Beirut, The American University of Beirut Press, 2024, pp227 - 250, [Tylor Brand], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Tylor Brand, Famine Worlds: Life At the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War, First, Stanford , Stanford University Press , 2023, 272 pagespp, Book, PUBLISHED
Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget: Starving, Eating, and Coping in the Syrian Famine of World War I in, editor(s)Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser and Bilal Orfali , Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond, Leiden, Brill, 2019, pp319-339 , [Tylor Brand ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
"That They May Have Life: The Syrian Protestant College and Emergency Relief during World War I." in, editor(s)Nadia el-Cheikh, Bilal Orfali and Lina Choueiri , One Hundred and Fifty , Beirut, The American University of Beirut Press , 2016, pp51 - 62, [A. Tylor Brand], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Near East Relief, Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, Freie Universität Berlin, 2014, pphttp://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1 , [Tylor Brand], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Howard S. Bliss, Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, Freie Universität Berlin, 2014, pphttp://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1 , [Tylor Brand ], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
The Syrian Protestant College, Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 2014, pphttp://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1 , [Tylor Brand ], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
"Orphans (Ottoman Empire/Middle East), Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, 2014, 10.15463/ie1418.10607 , [Tylor Brand ], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
  

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Introduction in, editor(s)Tylor Brand and Bilal Orfali , In the Steps of the Sultan: Essays in Honor of Abdulrahim Abu Husayn, Beirut, American University of Beirut Press, 2024, pp11 - 20, [Tylor Brand], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Tylor Brand, Joelle Abi Rached, Christopher Rose, Secil Yilmaz, Middle East History in the Time of COVID-19: A Roundtable on Disease, Environment, and Medicine, 2020, -, Notes: [Roundtable with scholars of Disease in the Middle East on the historical significance of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41253/Roundtable-Middle-East-History-in-the-Time-of-COVID-19-Disease,-Environment,-and-Medicine], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Tylor Brand, Shuffling the Order of the Dead: Triage and Trauma in the Relief Efforts of the American Missionary Community during the Lebanese Famine of World War I , Trinity International History Series, Dublin , 11, April , 2019, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Tylor Brand, Water and Conflict in the Middle East - Retrospectives and Predictions , Water Wars: The Impact of Water Access on Peace and Stability, Sharjah, UAE , 22, March, 2018, AUS Sustainability Series , Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Tylor Brand, The Influence of Time on Social Perceptions of Suffering in Long-Term Crisis: Syria 1916 and Today, Human Catastrophe, Then and Now: Social Trauma and its Political Consequences, 1916/2016 , The American University of Beirut, 1 June, 2016, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Tylor Brand, Secondhand Suffering and the Reinterpretation of Poverty in the Syrian Famine of WWI, International Studies Faculty Lecture Series , American University of Sharjah , January 6, 2016, 2016, The Department of International Studies, AUS , Invited Talk, PRESENTED