How did Muslims from East Africa, India, and Arabia address the challenges of colonial modernity & Islamic progress in Zanzibar? Join my conversation with Anne Bang as we explore "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period": newbooksnetwork.com/zanzibari-musl…

Thrilled to share that my daughter Abla and her duet partner Olivia won 2nd place (Cello) in the first round of the Crescendo International Music Competition! They’ll compete in the second round at Carnegie Hall, NYC -and I might join them as their piano accompanist! 🎻🎶🥳

The deadline is approaching for the CAORC - National Endowment for the Humanities Research #Fellowship, which provides the opportunity for scholars to carry out #research in the #humanities & to spend significant time in one country with an Overseas Research Center as a base. caorc.org/neh-fellowship…

I'm looking forward to being part of Duke Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC)'s Spring Speaker Series: Climate History in the Middle East. What a fantastic lineup! Many thanks to @adammestyan for putting this together!

My book now has a cover! Islamic Objects in 17th-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court. Edinburgh University Press

The Muslim call to prayer echoed through a Christmas concert in a Christian cathedral in Beirut, Lebanon. May God bless our beautiful homeland and its people.

Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (1777-1804), Ottoman governor in the Levant, established an endowment in Acre that housed a large Arabic manuscript library. This newly published volume analyses the holdings of this library. brill.com/display/title/…

Colleagues in Münster are organizing an outstanding workshop dedicated to the fascinating topic of translation. This event will bring together a diverse group of scholars to explore the multifaceted role of translation within the Ottoman Empire. +

Cultural critic and Professor Emerita of English Wendy Steiner returns to Penn January 29th to read from her book, The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and Freedom, a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency.

Here is a timeline of hadith scholarship I’ve been working on. The essay is short but the focus is the infographic, which helps students visualize the different phases of hadith scholarship with its key figures, approaches, and regions. See: tinyurl.com/bdzk3u6e

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New book: "Dis-orienting the Maghreb: Morocco in British and American Travel Writing" by Sadik Rddad Peter Lang Publishers peterlang.com/document/13634… #travelstudies #travelwriting #travelnarratives #postcolonialstudies

Friends, we at Swarthmore will be hosting the 2025 national Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) conference this fall. We're anticipating 400 scholars and students from around the country. Registration is now open and all are welcome, hope to welcome you to Philly!

This looks like a fantastic symposium with an amazing group of scholars! ✨

Come join us for a fascinating roundtable conversation on March 6 on how borders were shaped and reshaped during the last century of the Ottoman Empire. We’ll be joined by a fantastic group of scholars who will share their insights and perspectives.

Join us on March 20 for a lecture/book talk with Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano on how Ottoman poetry shaped state and society in the early modern Ottoman Empire. Don’t miss this fascinating discussion!

#NewRelease Literature’s Refuge Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape William Stroebel. Princeton University Press 2025 #OpenAccess Introduction, Front Matter ⬇️ press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac… degruyter.com/document/doi/1… academia.edu/127686945/Lite…

Happening Monday! Four longtime MERIP contributors who helped shape the field of women’s and gender studies within Middle East studies will be in conversation. We are so excited about the opportunity to learn from and think with this group! georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

It is a pleasure to see that my first piece in Arabic has been published by the University of Balamand Press.