Professor Schaar specializes in Middle Eastern and global history. He is a recipient of four John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grants to organize conferences and produce a film on Algeria. In May 2005, while on sabbatical leave from Brooklyn College, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Nantes in France. He has also published some 30 additional scholarly articles. He presently teaches undergraduate electives and graduate courses on Middle East History in the Twentieth Century and global history since 1945. His website on 9/11 and its aftermath can be found at http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/sschaar.
Selected publications:
The Middle East and Islamic World Reader (co-edited with Marvin E. Gettleman, Grove Press, 2003; rev. ed., 2005)
"Orientalism at the Service of Imperialism" in A.L. Macfie, ed., Orientalism: A Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 2000 and New York University Press, 2001)
The Algerian Impasse (co-edited with Abdelleh Hammoudi, Princeton Center of International Relations, 1995)
"Irangate: The Middle East Connections," in Hooshang Amirahmadi, ed., The United States and the Middle East: A Search for New Perspectives (State University of New York Press, 1993)
"M'hamed Ali: Tunisian Labor Organizer" (with Eqbal Ahmad), in Edmund Burke, III, ed., Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (University of California Press, 1993)
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