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Dr. Tylor Brand
Assistant Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Studies

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tylor Brand, Subjective Lenses: Narrative Framing and the Making of a Disaster in the Lebanese Famine of World War I, Contemporary Levant, 10, 2025 Journal Article, 2025

Tylor Brand, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria Brock Cutler (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Pp. 242. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781496232533, Review of Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria, by Brock Cutler , International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 56, (2), 2024 Review, 2024 DOI

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, 2024 URL

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 Book, 2024 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, 2023 URL

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, 2019 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, 2016

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, 2014 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, 2014 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, 2014 TARA - Full Text

A. Tylor Brand, Lives Darkened by Calamity: Enduring the Famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria, The American University of Beirut , 2014 Thesis, 2014

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, 2014 TARA - Full Text

The Caesar Affair , 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, pphttp://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1 , [Tylor Brand] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2014 TARA - Full Text

Years of Horror: The American Experience of the Famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria in, editor(s)Gilbert Bonifas and Martine Monacelli , Southern Horrors: Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World , Newcastle Upon Tyne , Cambridge Scholars , 2013, pp173 - 185, [A. Tylor Brand] Book Chapter, 2013 TARA - Full Text

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

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, 2024 URL

Tylor Brand, Notes on the Misery of the Academic Job Cycle, Issues in Middle Eastern Studies, 42, (2), 2022, p19 - 22 Journal Article, 2022 URL

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, - Miscellaneous, 2020 URL

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, 2019

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, 2018

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, 2016

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, 2016

Research Expertise

Keywords

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

Recognition

Representations

Manuscript Evaluator, Cambridge University Press 1 March, 2021

Book Review Request, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies November, 2023

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 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

Book Review Request, Druze Studies Journal (declined) January, 2024

Book Review Request, Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies December, 2023

Consultant to Megaphone (media outlet) for documentary "Tahiin, tahiin: 100 sana 'ala dhikrat al-maja'a" various

Consultant to Alec Webb for BBC documentary series WWI Beyond the Trenches various

Journal Reviewer, al-Abhath 21 May, 2021

Journal Reviewer, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 30 April, 2020

Memberships

Middle Eastern Studies Association 2008 – Present

International Society for First World War Studies 2024 – Present

Lebanese Studies Association 2018 – Present

British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 2022 – Present

Syrian Studies Association 2023 – Present