Summary
Researcher at cedrac (Beirut) and Senior Researcher in the erc-Advanced project typarabic, co-editor of ‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), co-finder of its manuscript, and author of the Introduction’s closing section on exaggeration, ego and truth in Niqula Khoury’s memoirs (‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), PDF p.13, p.22, p.40).
Details
- In 2018–2019 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University on the nwo project CrossRoads, working on the Melkite community of Palestine; his research covers the liturgical and iconographical heritage of the Melkite Church, Melkite-Rome correspondences and the comparative history of Byzantine Churches; he holds two PhDs, in History of Art (Paris iv-Sorbonne, 2017) and Theology (Catholic Institute of Paris, 2017) (PDF p.13).
- With Karène Sanchez Summerer he found Khoury’s manuscript in the archives of the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut in summer 2018, and shared in its translation, annotation and analysis (PDF p.22).
- His Introduction §5, headed “Exaggeration, Ego and Truth: a Levantine Christian Cleric Reads the Memoirs of Niqula Khoury”, attributes the memoirs’ perplexing self-importance to Khoury’s oversized ego and desire for self-aggrandisement, records editorial-team Balkan newspaper searches that found his claimed press stardom imprecise, holds his Cairo transfer canonically unjustifiable, and concludes that the memoirs should be taken with a grain of salt (PDF p.40-42).
Related pages
‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), Niqula Khoury, Sarah Irving, Karène Sanchez Summerer