The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a discussion of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by  Rosie Bsheer Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From … Continue reading Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm

ABSTRACT Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia newly released by Cornell University Press is a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community’s ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia. Fluid Jurisdictions looks at colonial legal infrastructure – … Continue reading Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm

This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies.  State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM