Constantine Zurayk Program
Arab scholar and former AUB acting president Constantine Zurayk’s collection of personal and professional addresses, lectures, correspondence, administrative and scholarly material covers his body of work at AUB as well as his time at other academic & cultural institutions (IAU, IPS, Syrian University).
The collection of Constantine Zurayk’s personal papers documents the life and work of a prominent historian, public intellectual, Arab nationalist and institution builder, throughout the 20th century. This is an important collection for researchers interested in various scholarly fields pertaining to the twentieth-century histories of the Levant and the broader Arab world. Most prominent of these fields are the histories of higher education and adjacent research institutions (both regional and international); Arab intellectual history with a focus on Arab nationalism and historiography; networks of Arab nationalist thought and organizing with a focus on al-Urwa al-Wuthqa society; and more broadly, a history of the intellectual, cultural and political milieu in Beirut and the Arab world during his lifetime. This is also an important collection for material on the Arab response to the Zionist project in the Arab world and the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, which were lifelong preoccupations for Zurayk. The collection holds documents, manuscripts, reports, articles, speeches, and lectures he delivered on the question of Palestine and Western imperialism in the region.
To access the collection:
https://www.aub.edu.lb/Libraries/asc/Collections/Pages/FindingAids.aspx
