Dr. Tylor Brand
Assistant Professor, Near & Middle Eastern Studies
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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]
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]
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
Tylor Brand, Famine Worlds: Life At the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War, First, Stanford , Stanford University Press , 2023, 272 pagespp
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 ]
"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]
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 ]
"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 ]
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 ]
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
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]
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]
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]
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]
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, -
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
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
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
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
Research Expertise
Recognition
Representations
Member of NCCA Leaving Certificate Arabic Development Group to develop second level Arabic curriculum in Irish schools
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
Delivered 14 hour Executive Education Module for the Iraqi Professional Leadership Program entitled "The History of Iraq in the 20th Century"
Consultant to Megaphone (media outlet) for documentary "Tahiin, tahiin: 100 sana 'ala dhikrat al-maja'a"
Consultant to Alec Webb for BBC documentary series WWI Beyond the Trenches
Manuscript Evaluator, Cambridge University Press
Journal Reviewer, Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
Journal Reviewer, al-Abhath
Memberships
Middle Eastern Studies Association
Lebanese Studies Association
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Syrian Studies Association