Stuart Schaar

Stuart Schaar was Professor Emeritus of Middle East History at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing of the Middle East and co-author of The Middle East and Islamic World Reader. A long-time friend of Eqbal Ahmad, he is the author of the acclaimed biography Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age. He died in 2026.