Franck Salameh is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Boston College, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures, where he teaches courses in Modern Middle East Cultural and Intellectual History, History of Ideas, Arabic Language, and Levantine Literature. He is author of "Language Memory and Identity in the Middle East; The Case for Lebanon," and a forthcoming annotated English translation of Charles Corm's "6000 ans de génie pacifique au service de l'humanité." His current research and book projects include "Arabiyya; Intellectual, Linguistic, and Policy Failures", an Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature (in French, Arabic, Aramaic, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Hebrew,) and a political biography of Charles Corm (1894-1963), Lebanon's French-language national poet.