David Bond

Curriculum vitae
386 East 15th Avenue

bond.210@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Columbus, Ohio 43201-4999

davidmbond@yahoo.com

USA

614-623-1542

614 292 9255

Academic Record
2012
2001
1993
1985

MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (The Ohio State University)

BA in Arabic language and civilisation (University of Tunis)
BA in Theology (Institut catholique, Toulouse)
BA in Oriental Studies (Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Professional Experience
2015
20102014
20102014

Doctoral candidate ABD : Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The
Ohio State University.
Doctoral student and Graduate Teaching Assistant (Arabic language and Cultures of
the contemporary Arab world)
Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Taught five classes in Cultures of the contemporary Arab or Islamic World and six
classes in intermediate and advanced beginners Arabic.
As TA I designed and sole-taught the above courses.
Affiliated (2013 onwards) - to the University of Catania research unit which is part
of State, Plurality, and Change in Africa, an interdisciplinary research project
funded by the Italian government as a Programme of Relevant National Interests
(PRIN). This studies relations between nation and minorities in modern Tunisia.
http://www- 5.unipv.it/africa/index.htm

19952010

Tunis - Editorial coordinator of the Review of the Institut des belles-lettres arabes
(IBLA).

19931995

Algeria Ghardaia (Centre de documentation saharienne) et Centre dtudes

diocsain ( Les Glycines , Alger).

19992000

Member of the Scientific Council, Annuaire de lAfrique du Nord.

Academic Publications
2016

2013

2010

2010
2009
2009
2007
2006

2004
2000

(forthcoming) Tunisia: constructing the mosaic in Minorities and the Modern Arab
World: New Perspectives, Laura Robson, ed. (Syracuse University Press).
(forthcoming)
Knowledge is treasure: reflections on the first editorial of the Revue de lInstitut
des belles-lettres arabes, Polo Sud 2 (2013): http://www.editpress.it/cms/book/polosud-2
Sur les traces de Prosper Ricard : expriences culturelles dans la mdina de Tunis
1927-1950, in Traces, dsir de savoir et volont dtre. XIXe-XXIe sicles, Fanny
Colonna et Loc Le Pape, eds. (Actes Sud : Arles, 2010).
All things to all men: postcolonial historys many guises, revue de lInstitut des
belles-lettres arabes 206 (2010): 213-233.
About this man called Ali: the purple life of an Arab artist, revue de lInstitut des
belles-lettres arabes 204 (2009): 293296.
British travellers in Tunisia, 1800-1930, a history of representations and
encounters revue de lInstitut des belles-lettres arabes 203(2009): 161165.
Indignes revue de lInstitut des belles-lettres arabes 199 (2007): 8893.
Limage rvle : de lorientalisme lart contemporain. Exposition au muse de la
ville de Tunis, palais Kheir ed-Din, 20 septembre 4 novembre revue de lInstitut
des belles-lettres arabes 199 (2006): 8387.
Cinma tunisien 2003: le printemps de Nouri Bou Zid, revue de lInstitut des
belles-lettres arabes 193 (2004): 8591.
Qui guide les guides?, revue de lInstitut des belles-lettres arabes 186 (2000) :
243249.

Paper Presentations
2014

2014
2013
2012

2011

2010

Tunis: remembering the Mediterranean, paper presented at the Mediterranean

Studies Symposium Mare Nostrum organised by Auburn University at the EuroMediterranean Center at the University of Catania, Italy, 30 May 2014.
February: Mission impossible? The White Fathers in colonial Tunisia,paper
presented at the Hayes Graduate Forum, Ohio State University.
Tunisias minority mosaic: colloquium Minorities of the Modern Middle East,"
April 2013, Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University.
January: In search of elites: the revue de lInstitut des belles-lettres arabes (Ibla)
1937-1950, communication presented to the Hayes Graduate Forum, Ohio State
University.
April: Quicker than the Human Heart: The Changing Forms of Tunis, paper
presented at Mediterranean Encounters in the City, at the University of BoulderColorado.
Discussant at WOCMES, Barcelona, July 2010 for the panel : Discuter le global
partir du local. Lexprience coloniale et postcoloniale en Afrique du Nord.

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2009
2009

2009

2009

2008

Lecturer: Euro-Mediterranean summer school on European Policies and Economic

Transition in the Mediterranean Basin, University of Catania, Sicily.
May: Voyageurs anglophones Kairouan 1844-1955, colloquium on tourisme
and patrimoine pendant lpoque coloniale, University of Kairouan (Tunisia), 29 30.
Latin sisters, Sicilian peril, convivial proximity: colonial and post-colonial
representations of Italians in Tunisia, colloquium on Exclusion and Inclusion,
Department of English, University of Kairouan, 5 May 2009.
February: Discussant for the FSP programme Traces, dsir de savoir et volont
dtre. XIXe-XXIe sicle coordinated by Fanny Colonna, Facolt di Scienze politiche,
Catania.
September: Un mosaico in frantumi. La Tunisia tra strappi coloniali e nuove sfide,
IX conference della Societ per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SESAM0), Il passato e
il presente della violenza in Medio Oriente: realt e rappresentazione, Turin.

Languages
French
Arabic
Italian
Spanish
Persian
Latin
Greek

Fluent
Fluent
Advanced
Good
Advanced reading knowledge
Reading knowledge with dictionary
Reading knowledge with dictionary

Translations
2013

2009

Understanding the Quran Today by Mahmoud Hussein. Published in French under

the title Penser le Quran (Paris: Grasset, 2009). English version published in 2013
by Saqi Books, London.
Islam: between message and history by Abdelmadjid Charfi. Published in Arabic
(Beirut :Dar al Tala, 2001). English version published in 2009 by Aga Khan
University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, and Edinburgh
University Press.

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