Thu Nov 12 · 5pm
History of Now Lectures: Orit Bashkin, On Sultans, Prophets and the Early Modern Amalek: History of Jews in Arab Ottoman Provinces, 1517-1882
Orit Bashkin, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago, gives the first of her three History of Now lectures, on Jewish life in the Arab Ottoman provinces from 1517 to 1882. Bashkin writes on the intellectual and cultural history of the modern Middle East, including Iraqi Jews and the nahda, and is now researching the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel.