Saree MakdisiLebanese-Palestinian-American scholar and writer Saree Makdisi has already carved a niche for himself in academic and intellectual circles. He is the author of Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity and William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s. Also a prolific writer on political affairs, in 2008 he published his third book, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton). He has written in publications ranging from Studies in Romanticism, the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Race and Imperial Culture, and the Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830, to the South Atlantic Quarterly, Boundary 2, Critical Inquiry, and the London Review of Books. On a recent visit to Cairo, Makdisi gave three lectures at Ain Shams University and the American University in Cairo on "The revival of Orientalism", "William Blake" and the "Palestinian Nakba."