About Benjamin Thomas White

Benjamin Thomas White teaches history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. A Middle East historian by background, he now teaches the history of refugees in the world since the late nineteenth century. His first book, The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: the Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2011. His article "Refugees and the definition of Syria, 1920–1939,'' published by Past and Present (May 2017), won the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies and the article prize of the Syrian Studies Association.