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Dr. Tylor Brand
Assistant Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Studies
Email branda@tcd.ie Phone https://www.tylorbrand.com/Publications and Further Research Outputs
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tylor Brand, Famine Worlds: Life At the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War, First, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2023, 272 pagesppBook, 2023, 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, 2024Book, 2024, 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, 2024, URL
- A. Tylor Brand, Lives Darkened by Calamity: Enduring the Famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria, The American University of Beirut , 2014Thesis, 2014
- Tylor Brand, Subjective Lenses: Narrative Framing and the Making of a Disaster in the Lebanese Famine of World War I, Contemporary Levant, 2026Journal Article, 2026
- 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), 2024Review, 2024, DOI
- Tylor Brand, Samuel Dolbee. Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 336 pp. Paperback, $31.99. ISBN 9781009200356., Review of Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East, by Samuel Dolbee , Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2025Review, 2025
- 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, 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 , 2019Invited Talk
- 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 SeriesInvited Talk
- 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, 2016Invited Talk
- 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, AUSInvited Talk
- 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, URL
- Tylor Brand, Notes on the Misery of the Academic Job Cycle, Issues in Middle Eastern Studies, 42, (2), 2022, p19 - 22Journal Article, URL
- Irth (Heritage), 'The Famine', Clair et Net Productions, Season 2, Episode 10, Riyadh, KSA, 2025, -Broadcast, URL
- Tylor Brand, Famine Worlds, AUB History Talks, Beirut, Lebanon, 20 March, 2024, Makram Rabah and Varak KetsemanianInvited Talk, URL
- Tylor Brand and Rony Chatah, 'Famine and Fate', The Beirut Banyan, Episode 391, Beirut, 2024, -Broadcast, URL
- Tylor Brand, Narrative Framings and the Making of a Disaster in World War I Lebanon, Tremblings and Inundations: Natural Disasters in the History and Culture of West Asia and North Africa, Stoke on Trent, 13 July 2023, edited by Sarah Irving and Kirsty Bennett , 2023Conference Paper
- Tylor Brand, Beyond the Event: Context, Calamity, and Disaster Framing in the Lebanese Famine of World War I, Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity, Harvard, March 29-30, 2025, 2025Oral Presentation
- Tylor Brand and James Hanrahan, Famine Then, Famine Now: A Conversation about Famine in the Middle East, Past and Present, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies Research Seminar, Neill Lecture Theater, 23 September, 2025, SLLCS Research DirectorInvited Talk
Research Expertise
Humanities and the arts, History, Heritage and Archaeology,
Recognition
- Honorable Mention Book of the Year, Syrian Studies Association 2024
- International Society for First World War Studies Present
- Syrian Studies Association Present
- Middle Eastern Studies Association Present
- Lebanese Studies Association Present
- Association of Middle Eastern Children and Youth Studies Present
- British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Present
- Communications Chair, Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies 2024-2026
- Manuscript Evaluator, Cambridge University Press 1 March, 2021
- Member of NCCA Leaving Certificate Arabic Development Group to develop second level Arabic curriculum in Irish schools 2020-2022
- 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
- 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, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies November, 2023
- Journal Reviewer, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 30 April, 2020
- Book Review Request, Druze Studies Journal (declined) January, 2024
- Book Review Request, Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies December, 2023
- 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
- Journal Reviewer, al-Abhath 21 May, 2021