Reem Bailony
Phone: 404.471.6553
Email: rbailony@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Buttrick 303
Academic Degrees
- BA, University of California, San Diego
- MA, University of California, Los Angeles
- PhD,University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Reem Bailony is a historian of the modern Middle East with a focus on Middle East migrations and transnationalism. Her book, Syria's Transnational Rebellion: Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) explores the diasporic and transnational dimensions of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927, a watershed moment in anti-colonialism during the French Mandate era. Professor Bailony is also interested in the history of Syrian-Lebanese transnational family dynamics after World War I, and how migrant families parented their children in the diaspora as part of a broader project in constructing their national-selves.
Professional Activities
Publications:
- "From Mandate Borders to the Diaspora: Rashaya's Transnational Suffering and the Making of Lebanon in 1925," Arab Studies Journal 26, no. 2 (Fall 2018).
- “Transnationalism and the Syrian Migrant Public: The Case of the 1925 Syrian Revolt,” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2013).
- Book: Syria’s Transnational Rebellion: Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927, Edinburgh University Press (May 31, 2025).
- Articles: Michael Provence and Reem Bailony, "Rebels and Rivals in a Syrian Town: Musa al-Naddaf, Syrian Nationalist Rebel, Colonial Fugitive, West Virginia Grocer, 1899-1963," International Journal of Middle East Studies (Forthcoming).
- Book Chapters: “Donating in the Name of the Nation? Charity, Sectarianism, and the Mahjar,” in Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon. eds. Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti (Stanford University Press, 2022).