Max Weiss is Associate Professor of History and associated faculty in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, and a literary translator of Arabic into English. He is the author of Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Baʿthist Syria (Stanford University Press, 2022) and In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shiʿism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon (Harvard University Press, 2010), and the translator of many works of Arabic fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, Alawiya Sobh’s This Thing Called Love (Seagull Books, 2023). He is currently writing an intellectual history of modern Syria and translating the latest book by Yassin al-Haj Saleh.