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:
- Book: Syria’s Transnational Rebellion: Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
- Articles: Provence, Michael 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. Published online 2025:1–24. doi:10.1017/S0020743825100950.
- “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 1, No. 1 (Spring 2013).
- Book Chapters: “Donating in the Name of the Nation? Charity, Sectarianism, and the Mahjar,” in Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon. edited by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti. Stanford University Press, 2022.