The Roadblock State: Highways, Automobility, and Taxation in Lebanon, 1920-1950 – A Workshop with Zack Cuyler

The Institute for the Humanities Global Middle East Studies Working Group presents, “The Roadblock State: Highways, Automobility, and Taxation in Lebanon, 1920-1950 – A Workshop with Zack Cuyler,” on Monday, March 11, 1 p.m., Institute for the Humanities (153 BSB).

The Global Middle East Studies Working Group at the UIC Institute for the Humanities invites you to a hybrid workshop held at the Institute for the Humanities and on Zoom. Zack Cuyler, assistant professor of history, will be workshopping an article draft entitled “The Roadblock State: Highways, Automobility, and Taxation in Lebanon, 1920-1950.” Download the paper.

Cuyler’s scholarship focuses on the historical and contemporary politics of infrastructure, energy and the environment in the mashriq.