Already looking for a Christmas gift? This book on Rulers and Rebels in the Early Islamicate World is announced by Edinburgh University Press for December. Adam Gaiser and I have a paper on Ibadi historiography and the evolutive Ibadi perception of the Khārijite legacy. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-between-r…

"Ever noticed every American article title looks like this, has comma-spliced format?"

🔍 New blog alert - from the author of Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460! This piece gives an overview of select experiences with captivity in the late medieval Middle Sea. Read it here: euppublishingblog.com/2024/07/26/bei…

Blog by our former colleague Alasdair Grant about his exciting recent book

Join the @rebellionUHH team and Groningen collaborators in Hamburg or online on 21–22 October 2024 for an international conference on 'Oaths in Long Late Antiquity'. Contributions on Rome, Byzantium, Islam and beyond. More info below 👇 aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschun…

SUVs are setting new sales records each year — & so are their emissions If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s 5th largest emitter of CO2 Read more in our commentary on what this means for efforts to reach energy & climate goals ➡️ iea.li/4dNM0Tb

Some food for thought... What if we could see emissions? Would it change what we eat? Data: (greenhouse gas emissions per kg of food product) Steak = 129.75kg Lentils = 2.54kg Beans = 1.37kg Chickpeas = 1.34kg Tofu = 1.02kg See full dataset: ourworldindata.org/environmental-…

Tomorrow:

Reminder: you can attend our conference on 'Oaths in Long Late Antiquity' online or in person for free at the University of Hamburg, 21–22 October. Email me to sign up!

Die #AdWHH hat sieben herausragende junge Forschende aus Norddeutschland als #YoungAcademyFellows aufgenommen: #GiovannaCaruso, #ChristophDaldrop, #RuthEffinowicz, Alasdair Grant, #EkaterinaLytkina, @BrittaLuebke, #DenizSarikaya Herzlich Willkommen! awhamburg.de/aktuell/aktuel…

Still time to sign up for our conference, 'Oaths in Long Late Antiquity': you can attend online or in person.

New article on Israeli support of Azerbaijan in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Reasons of state, technological testing ground, naked financial interests, and the effort to maintain the uniqueness of the Holocaust. And not necessarily in that order. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An overlooked 2024 title. OPEN ACCESS🏆 Alasdair C. Grant, Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 (Edinburgh University Press, May 2024) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-greek-cap… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalmediterranean

We mourn the loss of Emeritus Professor Keith Rutter, who died this morning: a great Greek historian and numismatist, an utterly dedicated teacher, and active in the department and scholarship long after retirement. We will miss him badly, and send deep sympathy to his family.

Imagine raiding someone's property holding a gun and still consider yourself "the innocent who is threatened and endangered" Israeli settlers backed by the army destroy the house of a christian palestinian family and seize their land.

🚨BREAKING: A horrific night in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Hundreds of Israeli terrorist settlers launched a brutal attack on the city of Ramallah, setting fire to numerous Palestinian homes and vehicles. After setting Palestinian homes and cars on fire, they moved to the

And where opposing that extermination is deemed hateful extremism