Jonathan Hassine is a historian of the modern Arab world, with a particular interest in state formation, armed conflicts, anticolonialism, and popular mobilisations. He received his PhD from Sorbonne Université and was formerly a Research and Teaching Associate at Sciences Po Aix.

His first monograph, Les soldats et l’État dans le Liban en guerre (Presses universitaires de France, 2025), uses the Lebanese army as a lens to explore the survival of the state, the role of combatants, and the trajectories of revolutionary officers during the war that tore Lebanon apart between 1975 and 1990.

As a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex, Jonathan is now working on two projects: a co-edited volume on the Lebanese Civil War and a transnational history of Nasserism, at the intersection of local contentious politics, Cold War diplomacies, and regional knowledge production.

Publications

Book

Les soldats et l’État dans le Liban en guerre, 1975–1990 (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2025)

Special issue

Co-edited with Maxime Launay, ‘L’histoire des armées à l’épreuve des archives’, special issue of 20&21. Revue d’histoire 164 (4). 

Selected articles and book chapters

‘Les militaires et leurs archives : retrouver l’ordinaire de l’armée libanaise en temps de guerre civile”, 20&21. Revue d’histoire 164, 4 (2024): 71–87.

‘Writing an Arab History of the June 1967 War’ (interview with Khaled Fahmy), 20&21. Revue d’histoire 164, 4 (2024): 141-155

‘‘L’armée est un message’: L’épreuve de la coexistence dans l’armée libanaise de l’indépendance à la guerre civile’, Julie d’Andurain, Jérôme Bocquet, and Jacques Frémeaux, eds, L’armée et l’islam: Enjeux et débats en France du XIXe au XXIe siècle (Paris: Cerf, 2024):185–203.

‘L’étrange bataille de Souk al-Gharb: de l’expérience combattante à la mémoire de la guerre civile dans l’armée libanaise’, Revue d’histoire moderne & contemporaine 72, 3 (2023): 117–50.

‘Masculinity in Contention: Performance, Language, and Gender in the Lebanese Army during the Civil War’, International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, 4 (2022): 647–67.