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Contact Information

rebeizm@dickinson.edu

Bosler Hall
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Bio

I am Chair of Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Francophone Studies & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. I received my first Doctorate (PhD) in Francophone Studies from Florida State University and my second doctorate (SJD) in International Law from Penn State Dickinson Law. I also hold a Master’s degree in International Law and Human Rights from Université de Rouen in France, and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon. My teaching and research are interdisciplinary and focus on the intersectionality of law, gender, sexuality, oral history, and trauma in the context of armed conflicts with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. I have written and successfully published monographs, peer-reviewed essays in French and English, and editorials in national and international presses. My second book "Hezbollah in International Law" is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in December 2025. It examines Hezbollah's legal status as a State or non-State actor in armed conflict (with Israel and in Syria). It also studies Hezbollah's unlawful activities in Lebanon since 1982 and State responsibility. My first book, "Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon", for which I earned the AAUW American Fellowship, appeared with Edinburgh University Press in 2022. Nominated for the John Leonard Prize, this book examines French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women authors writing on the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1991. My most recent research project focuses on the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983 that killed 241 American servicemembers and 58 French parachutists. In this project, I explore gaps in Lebanese, French, and American histories and write veterans’ oral stories.

Education

• B.A., Université Saint-Joseph Jésuite, Lebanon, 1999
• M.A., Université de Rouen, France, 2004
• Ph.D., Florida State University, 2012