Max Wei
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3756787 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Max Wei |
| PRENOMES | Max |
| SOBRENOME | Wei |
| ASSINATURA | WEI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3108-8207 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1913 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
Mapping heat vulnerability in cities
An HVI map tool integrating outdoor-indoor heat exposure and building characteristics. • Allow customization of factor weights for tailored HVI applications. • Apply the tool to Fresno and Oakland revealing distinct vulnerability patterns. • Building heat resistance needs consideration for indoor heat risk assessment. • Support decision making on short-term heat mitigation and long-term urban planning. Extreme heat is a major cause of weather-rel…
US urban land-use reform
Policy approaches to the global energy transition often focus on technology-based solutions while ignoring challenges of overall energy demand. A sufficiency-first approach aims to limit superfluous consumption while achieving wellbeing for all. This study focuses on US built environment mechanisms of sufficiency under urban land-use policy. The historical context of US exclusionary and car-oriented planning is reviewed with an order-of-magnitude…
Prioritize energy sufficiency to decarbonize our buildings
Political frames of public health crises
Dancing in Damascus
miriam cooke, Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2016. 154 pages. Paperback $40.95.If the world was caught unawares by the uprisings and revolutionary movements that exploded in 2010-2011 in Tunisia and Egypt and then spread to Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and beyond, the efflorescence of seemingly unprecedented cultural production in the midst of those events also attracted attention from journa…
Genealogies of Baʿthism
This paper reframes the intellectual genealogy of Baʿthism in modern Syria through a close reading of the writings of one of its founding figures, Michel ʿAflaq. Rereading ʿAflaq's most important texts is part of a broader reconsideration of the intellectual history of modern Syria between nationalism and liberalism, revolution and reaction. While recognizing the traces of nineteenth-century German idealist philosophy and Romantic nationalism in …
Left Out
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Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age
In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, i…
Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age
Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa
The ongoing debate over the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) deployment often hinges on the current cost of incumbent fossil-fuel technologies versus the long-term benefit of clean energy alternatives. This debate is often focused on mature or ‘industrialized’ economies and externalities such as job creation. In many ways, however, the situation in developing economies is at least as or even more interesting …
Sight, Sound, and Surveillance in Baʿthist Syria
Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian rule. This article identifies connections among aesthetics, politics, and affect in two Syrian novels, Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan’s Brūfā (Rough Draft) (2011) and Samar Yazbik’s Lahā marāyā (In Her Mirrors) (2010). Through literary representations of state security (the mukhābarāt), surveillance—including the structure and function of mirrors and screens, ea…
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab. The Shiʻites of Lebanon
In this book Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab provide a chronological narrative account of the Shiʻite community in South Lebanon (Jabal ʻAmil), in the Biqaʻ Valley, and throughout the Lebanese polity from the mid-nineteenth century until the recent past. The book “stresses the importance of communal and revolutionary ideology to the reshaping of the political sphere in Lebanon,” with a particular emphasis on “sectarianism, the Lebanese state…
Syria in the Abyss
A new book by journalist Reese Erlich offers a tour of the hell that Syria has become, and an explanation of how it got there. To bring peace, he argues, foreign intervention must end
Deep carbon reductions in California require electrification and integration across economic sectors
Meeting a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 80% below 1990 levels in the year 2050 requires detailed long-term planning due to complexity, inertia, and path dependency in the energy system. A detailed investigation of supply and demand alternatives is conducted to assess requirements for future California energy systems that can meet the 2050 GHG target. Two components are developed here that build novel analytic capacity and extend previo…
Putting renewables and energy efficiency to work
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
Using Arabic-language sources that have never before been studied or analyzed, Max Weiss paints a nuanced picture of sectarianism in Lebanon under the French Mandate. He demonstrates that sectarianism evolved long before the phenomenon known as "political Shi'ism." This groundbreaking and deeply researched book is not merely narrative history; it also incorporates some of the latest critical theory about religious modernity and colonialism. Weiss…
The Historiography of Sectarianism in Lebanon
Lebanese history has been more or less defined by its engagement with the problem of sectarianism. Surprisingly rare have been the attempts to systematically trace this trajectory of historical engagement with the problem of sectarianism, though. This article argues that historians, legal scholars, and other writers have employed numerous conceptual and methodological approaches to examine, diagnose, and propose treatments for the problem of sect…
Institutionalizing Sectarianism
The French Mandate authorities in Greater Lebanon formally recognized the Ja'fari madhhab in January 1926. As a result, state-led shari'a courts in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese Ja'fari court, were authorized to adjudicate matters of personal status—marriage, divorce, nafaqa, inheritance and property. As the first Lebanese Shi'i institution to enjoy communal autonomy granted by the state, the records from the Ja'fari co…
Don't Throw Yourself Away to the Dark Continent’
The Shi'i Lebanese diaspora in West Africa has played a key role in the construction of Lebanese Shi'i sectarian identity in the Twentieth century. This article provides some perspective and insight on the relationships among race, sect and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East through the lens of transnational Shi'i networks. Travel narratives written by Lebanese Shi'is who visited French West Africa during the 1930s indicate certain cultura…
The Cultural Politics of Shiءi Modernism
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Photographic Surveying
Political frames of public health crises
Genealogies of Baʿthism
This paper reframes the intellectual genealogy of Baʿthism in modern Syria through a close reading of the writings of one of its founding figures, Michel ʿAflaq. Rereading ʿAflaq's most important texts is part of a broader reconsideration of the intellectual history of modern Syria between nationalism and liberalism, revolution and reaction. While recognizing the traces of nineteenth-century German idealist philosophy and Romantic nationalism in …
The Historiography of Sectarianism in Lebanon
Lebanese history has been more or less defined by its engagement with the problem of sectarianism. Surprisingly rare have been the attempts to systematically trace this trajectory of historical engagement with the problem of sectarianism, though. This article argues that historians, legal scholars, and other writers have employed numerous conceptual and methodological approaches to examine, diagnose, and propose treatments for the problem of sect…
The Cultural Politics of Shiءi Modernism
Please open the PDF to view the article
Don't Throw Yourself Away to the Dark Continent’
The Shi'i Lebanese diaspora in West Africa has played a key role in the construction of Lebanese Shi'i sectarian identity in the Twentieth century. This article provides some perspective and insight on the relationships among race, sect and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East through the lens of transnational Shi'i networks. Travel narratives written by Lebanese Shi'is who visited French West Africa during the 1930s indicate certain cultura…
Photographic Surveying
Don't Throw Yourself Away to the Dark Continent’
The Shi'i Lebanese diaspora in West Africa has played a key role in the construction of Lebanese Shi'i sectarian identity in the Twentieth century. This article provides some perspective and insight on the relationships among race, sect and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East through the lens of transnational Shi'i networks. Travel narratives written by Lebanese Shi'is who visited French West Africa during the 1930s indicate certain cultura…
The Cultural Politics of Shiءi Modernism
Please open the PDF to view the article
The Historiography of Sectarianism in Lebanon
Lebanese history has been more or less defined by its engagement with the problem of sectarianism. Surprisingly rare have been the attempts to systematically trace this trajectory of historical engagement with the problem of sectarianism, though. This article argues that historians, legal scholars, and other writers have employed numerous conceptual and methodological approaches to examine, diagnose, and propose treatments for the problem of sect…
Institutionalizing Sectarianism
The French Mandate authorities in Greater Lebanon formally recognized the Ja'fari madhhab in January 1926. As a result, state-led shari'a courts in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese Ja'fari court, were authorized to adjudicate matters of personal status—marriage, divorce, nafaqa, inheritance and property. As the first Lebanese Shi'i institution to enjoy communal autonomy granted by the state, the records from the Ja'fari co…
Putting renewables and energy efficiency to work
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
Using Arabic-language sources that have never before been studied or analyzed, Max Weiss paints a nuanced picture of sectarianism in Lebanon under the French Mandate. He demonstrates that sectarianism evolved long before the phenomenon known as "political Shi'ism." This groundbreaking and deeply researched book is not merely narrative history; it also incorporates some of the latest critical theory about religious modernity and colonialism. Weiss…
Deep carbon reductions in California require electrification and integration across economic sectors
Meeting a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 80% below 1990 levels in the year 2050 requires detailed long-term planning due to complexity, inertia, and path dependency in the energy system. A detailed investigation of supply and demand alternatives is conducted to assess requirements for future California energy systems that can meet the 2050 GHG target. Two components are developed here that build novel analytic capacity and extend previo…
Syria in the Abyss
A new book by journalist Reese Erlich offers a tour of the hell that Syria has become, and an explanation of how it got there. To bring peace, he argues, foreign intervention must end
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab. The Shiʻites of Lebanon
In this book Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab provide a chronological narrative account of the Shiʻite community in South Lebanon (Jabal ʻAmil), in the Biqaʻ Valley, and throughout the Lebanese polity from the mid-nineteenth century until the recent past. The book “stresses the importance of communal and revolutionary ideology to the reshaping of the political sphere in Lebanon,” with a particular emphasis on “sectarianism, the Lebanese state…
Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa
The ongoing debate over the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) deployment often hinges on the current cost of incumbent fossil-fuel technologies versus the long-term benefit of clean energy alternatives. This debate is often focused on mature or ‘industrialized’ economies and externalities such as job creation. In many ways, however, the situation in developing economies is at least as or even more interesting …
Sight, Sound, and Surveillance in Baʿthist Syria
Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian rule. This article identifies connections among aesthetics, politics, and affect in two Syrian novels, Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan’s Brūfā (Rough Draft) (2011) and Samar Yazbik’s Lahā marāyā (In Her Mirrors) (2010). Through literary representations of state security (the mukhābarāt), surveillance—including the structure and function of mirrors and screens, ea…
Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age
In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, i…
Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age
Genealogies of Baʿthism
This paper reframes the intellectual genealogy of Baʿthism in modern Syria through a close reading of the writings of one of its founding figures, Michel ʿAflaq. Rereading ʿAflaq's most important texts is part of a broader reconsideration of the intellectual history of modern Syria between nationalism and liberalism, revolution and reaction. While recognizing the traces of nineteenth-century German idealist philosophy and Romantic nationalism in …
Left Out
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dancing in Damascus
miriam cooke, Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2016. 154 pages. Paperback $40.95.If the world was caught unawares by the uprisings and revolutionary movements that exploded in 2010-2011 in Tunisia and Egypt and then spread to Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and beyond, the efflorescence of seemingly unprecedented cultural production in the midst of those events also attracted attention from journa…
Political frames of public health crises
Prioritize energy sufficiency to decarbonize our buildings
US urban land-use reform
Policy approaches to the global energy transition often focus on technology-based solutions while ignoring challenges of overall energy demand. A sufficiency-first approach aims to limit superfluous consumption while achieving wellbeing for all. This study focuses on US built environment mechanisms of sufficiency under urban land-use policy. The historical context of US exclusionary and car-oriented planning is reviewed with an order-of-magnitude…
Mapping heat vulnerability in cities
An HVI map tool integrating outdoor-indoor heat exposure and building characteristics. • Allow customization of factor weights for tailored HVI applications. • Apply the tool to Fresno and Oakland revealing distinct vulnerability patterns. • Building heat resistance needs consideration for indoor heat risk assessment. • Support decision making on short-term heat mitigation and long-term urban planning. Extreme heat is a major cause of weather-rel…
Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
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