Masarat (Arabic for "Trajectories") introduces Arab scholars who have made distinguished contributions through their historical writings, and reveals their relationships with their subjects as well as the material, methodological and practical difficulties they encountered. This section also reflects on the extent to which these researchers have benefited from contemporary historiographical schools of thought and their openness to the other social sciences. In this edition, Ostour introduces its readers to Lebanese historian Wajih Kawtharani, who discusses with readers of Ostour his experience of academic history and his approach to historical material. Kawtharani also uses Masarat to explain his fascination with the history of Greater Syria under Ottoman rule, the history of ideas, questions of (collective) memory and of historiography. Keywords: