Dr. Tylor Brand

Dr. Tylor Brand

Assistant Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Studies

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
  • 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 , 2023Book, 2023
  • 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 , 2023, ppTBA - TBA, [Tylor Brand]Book Chapter, 2023
  • 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
  • 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, 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

Research Expertise

Humanities, History and Archaeology,

Recognition

  • Syrian Studies Association Present
  • Middle Eastern Studies Association Present
  • Lebanese Studies Association Present
  • British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Present
  • 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 Megaphone (media outlet) for documentary "Tahiin, tahiin: 100 sana 'ala dhikrat al-maja'a" various
  • Journal Reviewer, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History 30 April
  • Consultant to Alec Webb for BBC documentary series WWI Beyond the Trenches various
  • Journal Reviewer, al-Abhath 21 May
  • 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
  • Manuscript Evaluator, Cambridge University Press 1 March