Professor William Harris

HOD

William has written three sole-authored books on Middle Eastern affairs, as well as a wide variety of book chapters and academic articles on both the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

His latest book, The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic (Markus Wiener, Princeton, 2003 and 2005) won an Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice magazine in the US. William is currently working on A History of Lebanon, 640-2005 for Oxford University Press in New York.

Research Interests are: Middle East comparative politics; ethnic and communal issues; political geography; Middle East history and contemporary affairs, especially the Levant.