Publications
- A Discourse Analysis of Texts written during the Nahḍa: A Case Study of al-Jinān, Dror, Y. & Zachs, F., Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Arabic Linguistics. 11, p. 40-64
- DEFINITIONS OF HAPPINESS IN OTTOMAN SYRIA: Hegemonic and subordinate voices during the nineteenth century, Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2024, The Routledge History of Happiness. Taylor and Francis, p. 231-248 18 p.
- Gendered Reorganization in Late Ottoman Beirut: The Reciprocal Influence of the Domesticity Discourse and the Urban Space, Zachs, F., 2022, From the Household to the Wider World: Local Perspectives on Urban Institutions in Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham. Ben-Bassat , Y. & Buessow, J. (eds.). Tubingen : Tubingen University Press, p. 143-156 14 p.
- Autobiography as a Language of Emotions: Arab Christian Adolescents in Ottoman Syria at the End of the Nineteenth Century., Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2022, In: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 15, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.
- Increasing Awareness of Children’s Fashion in the Ottoman and Arab Middle Classes as a Parameter of Social and Cultural Changes in the Late Ottoman Period, Zachs, F., 2022, In: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 15, 2, p. 319-336 18 p.
- Introduction: Ottoman Children and Childhood in Perspective, Yilmaz, G. & Zachs, F., 2021, Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire : From the 15th to the 20th Century. Yilmaz, G. & Zachs, F. (eds.). Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, p. 1-30 30 p. (Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire).
- CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: FROM THE 15TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, Yılmaz, G., Zachs, F. & Heywood, C., 1 Jan 2021, Edinburgh University Press. 433 p.
- 15. Women as Educators towards the End of the Nahda Period: Labiba Hashim and Children’s Upbringing: Labiba Hashim and Children’s Upbringing, Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2021, Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: from the 15th to the 20th Century. Edinburgh University Press, p. 363-386 24 p.
- Introduction, Yılmaz, G. & Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2021, Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: from the 15th to the 20th Century. Edinburgh University Press, p. 1-30 30 p.
- Book review: Protestants, Gender, and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria by Deanna Ferree Womack, Zachs, F., 2020, In: JOURNAL OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY. 10, 1, p. 133-135 3 p.
- The Muḥīṭ al-Muḥīṭ Dictionary: The Transition from Classical to Modern Arabic Lexicography, Zachs, F. & Dror, Y., 1 Jan 2020, In: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. 20, p. 15-32 18 p.
- The private world of women and children: Lullabies and nursery rhymes in 19th-century greater Syria, Zachs, F., 8 Apr 2019, Children and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Taylor and Francis, p. 77-99 23 p.
- קולות רדומים: שירי ערש כאספקלריה להבנת תפיסות משתנות כלפי ילדים ויַלְדוּת בסוריה הגדולה, זקס, פ., 2019, In: המזרח החדש. נח, p. 35-64 30 p.
- Children in war time: the first pupils of the Syrian (Schneller) orphanage in Jerusalem 1860–1863, Zachs, F., 2019, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 55, 6, p. 958-973 16 p.
- On the Path to Obsolescence: Children's Songs and Nursery Rhymes from the Galilean Muslim Village of Naḥef, Zachs, F. & גבע, א., 2018, In: Mediterranean Language Review. 25, p. 7-20 14 p.
- Debates on Women's Suffrage Rights in the Ottoman Arab Press, 1890-1914, Zachs, F., 2018, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 108, p. 275-296 22 p.
- Challenging the Ideal: al-Diya’ as Labiba Hashim's Stepping Stone, Zachs, F., 2017, Press and Mass Communication in the Middle East: Festschrift for Martin Strohmeier. Sagaster, B., Stavrides, T. & Hoffmann, B. (eds.). Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, p. 219-236 18 p. (Bamberger Orientstudien; vol. 12).
- Osmanlı Reformları, Taşrada Uygulanışı ve Etkileri,
Translated title of the contribution :Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration - Tanwīr: Arabic Enlightenment, Abu-‘Uksa , W. & Zachs, F., 2016, Encyclopédie de l’Humanisme Méditerranéen . Paris: Paris-Sorbonne University
- WOMEN'S VISIBILITY in PETITIONS from GREATER SYRIA during the LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD, Zachs, F. & Ben-Bassat, Y., 14 Oct 2015, In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 47, 4, p. 765-781 17 p.
- Al-Bustani Family, Zachs, F., 2015, Encyclopedia of Islam . 3rd ed. Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers
- Ahmed Paşa, Zachs, F., 2015, Encyclopedia of Islam . 3rd ed. Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers
- Gendering culture in greater Syria: Intellectuals and ideology in the late Ottoman period, Zachs, F. & Halevi, S., 14 Nov 2014, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 240 p. (Library of Middle East history ; vol. 51)
- Gendering culture in greater Syria: Intellectuals and ideology in the late Ottoman period, Zachs, F. & Halevi, S., 14 Nov 2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 240 p.
- Reviewed Work: Damascus Affairs. Egyptian Rule in Syria through the Eyes of an Anonymous Damascene Chronicler, 1831-1841. Translation and Parallel Edition of Two Manuscripts. (Kultur, Recht und Politik in Muslimischen Gesellschaften 26) by Johann Büssow, Khaled Safi, Zachs, F., 2014, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 104, p. 302-304 3 p.
- Feminism for Men: A Note on Butrus al-Bustani's Lecture on the Education of Women (1849), Zachs, F., 2014, Butrus al-Bustani : Spirit of the Age. Beshara, A. (ed.). Melbourne: Iphoenix Publishing, p. 113-139 18 p.
- From Şikayet to Political Discourse and ‘Public Opinion’: Petitioning Practices to the King-Crane Commission, Ben-Bassat, Y. & Zachs, F., 2014, In: New Middle Eastern Studies. 4, p. 1-23 23 p.
- "The little kingdom over which God made you queen": The gendered reorganization of a “modern” Arab home in turn-of-the-century Beirut, Halevi, S. & Zachs, F., 2013, In: HAGAR: Studies in Culture, Policy and Identitie. 11, 1, p. 139-156 18 p.
- Correspondence manuals in nineteenth-century Greater Syria: Between the arzuhalci and the advent of popular letter writing, Ben-Bassat, Y. & Zachs, F., 2013, In: Turkish Historical Review. 4, 1, p. 1-25 25 p.
- Debates on re-forming the family: a "private" history of the Nahda?, Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2012, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 102, p. 285-301 17 p.
- Transformations of a memory of tyranny in Syria: From Jamal Pasha to 'Id al-Shuhada', 1914-2000, Zachs, F., Jan 2012, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 48, 1, p. 73-88 16 p.
- Muammad Jamil Bayhum and the woman question: Between social and political rights, Zachs, F., 2012, In: Die Welt des Islams. 52, 3-4, p. 50-75 26 p.
- Cultural and conceptual contributions of Beiruti merchants to the Nahda, Zachs, F., 2012, In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 55, 1, p. 153-182 30 p.
- "Under Eastern Eyes": East on West in the Arabic Press of the Nahḍa Period, Zachs, F., 2011, In: Studia Islamica. 106, 1, p. 124-143 20 p.
- Subversive voices of daughters of the Nahda: Alice al-Bustani and Riwayat Saiba (1891), Zachs, F., 2011, In: Hawwa. 9, 3, p. 332-357 26 p.
- Text and context: the image of the merchant in early Nahda fiction, Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2011, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 101, p. 481-494 14 p.
- Fin de siècle Beirut: the making of an Ottoman provincial capital (Jens Hanssen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005), Zachs, F., 2008, In: Mediterranean Historical Review. 23, 1, p. 93-96 4 p.
- The Beginning of Press Advertising in 19th Century Beirut: Consumption, Consumers and Meanings, Zachs, F., 2008, The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press. Prochazka-Eisl , G. & Strohmeier, M. (eds.). Wien: Lit Publisher, p. 187-202 16 p. (Neue Beihefte zur Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes; no. 3).
- Mikhail Mishaqa, Zachs, F., Aug 2005, Historians of the Ottoman Empire. Kafadar, C., Karteke , H. & Fleischer, C. (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago
- Ottomanism and Syrian Patriotism in Salim al-Bustani’s Thought, Zachs, F. & Bawardi, B., 1 Jan 2005, Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 112-126 15 p.
- Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh, Weismann, I. & Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 233 p.
- From the mission to the missionary: The bliss family and the Syrian Protestant College (1866-1920), Zachs, F., 2005, In: Die Welt des Islams. 45, 2, p. 255-291 37 p.
- Introduction, Weismann, I. & Zachs, F., 2005, Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration : Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh . Weismann , I. & Zachs, F. (eds.). London : I.B. Tauris, p. 1-14 15 p. (Library of Ottoman studies; no. 8).
- Ottomanism and Syrian Patriotism in Salim al-Bustani’s Thought, Zachs, F. & Bawardi, B., 2005, Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration : Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh . Weismann , I. & Zachs, F. (eds.). London : I.B. Tauris, p. 111-126 16 p. (Library of Ottoman studies; no. 8).
- היסטוריוגרפיה מסורתית מול היסטוריוגרפיה מודרנית: המקרה הסורי במאה התשע עשרה, זקס, פ., 2005, In: המזרח החדש. 45, p. 73-88 16 p.
- The Making of a Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in 19th Century Beirut., Zachs, F., 2005, Leiden : Brill. 277 p. (Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; no. 98)
- Introduction, Weismann, I. & Zachs, F., 1 Jan 2005, Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration: Studies in Honour of Butrus Abu-Manneh. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 1-14 14 p.
- Building a Cultural Identity: The Case of Khalil al-Khuri, Zachs, F., 2004, From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon. Philipp , T. & Schumann, C. (eds.). Wurzburg : Ergon Verlag, p. 27-39 13 p. (Beiruter Texte und Studien; no. 96).
- Toward a proto-nationalist concept of Syria? Revisiting the American Presbyterian missionaries in the nineteenth-century levant, Zachs, F., 2001, In: Die Welt des Islams. 41, 2, p. 145-173 29 p.
- 'Novice' or 'heaven-born' diplomat? Lord Dufferin's plan for a 'province of Syria': Beirut, 1860-61, Zachs, F., Jul 2000, In: Middle Eastern Studies. 36, 3, p. 160-176 17 p.
Research Areas
Specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of Bilad al-Sham and Egypt, with a focus on gender and children, and in recent years on the history of emotions.