George Campus. He received his D.Phil in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001 and joined the University of Toronto the following year. His dissertation has been published by Clarendon Press as Fin de Siècle Beirut, Oxford, 2005. He has authored two co-edited volumes: Empire in the City (Beirut, 2002); and History, Space and Social Conflict in Beirut (Beirut, 2005). He is finishing his translation of Butrus al-Bustani’s Nafir Suriyya (1860-1). A list of his publications can be found on the Near and Middle Easter Civilizations website.