M. Maxine Rodinson
Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) was for many years a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne. He served in Syria during World War II and lived for seven years in Lebanon, working as a professor in a Muslim high school and as an official in the French Department of Antiquities for Syria and Lebanon. He returned to Paris in 1947 to work as a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale, and from 1950 to 1951 published Moyen Orient, a political monthly on the Middle East. American editions of his books include Israel and the Arabs and Islam and Capitalism.
