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M Christopher Low

@mchrislow

Historian @uofuhistory; Director of @UofUMEC; Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj @ColumbiaUP. Views are my own.

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“Public universities were meant to supply access to the non-elites to the kind of education available at private schools… A robust liberal arts education will remain… at Princeton & Harvard. Maybe at public flagships, though even that is in doubt.” sltrib.com/news/education…

“Public universities were meant to supply access to the non-elites to the kind of education available at private schools… A robust liberal arts education will remain… at Princeton & Harvard. Maybe at public flagships, though even that is in doubt.”

sltrib.com/news/education…
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Excited to join Leiden's Yemeni Studies Lecture Series with Simon Fraser's Thomas Kuehn! "War, Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier." January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025…

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Exactly this - another nail in the coffin of the historical profession. I did not think that AHA leadership would be this short-sighted and choose to alienate the membership in this way.

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We are so excited to host the acclaimed author, journalist, and screenwriter Sayed Kashua. Tanner Humanities Center and U of U Middle East Center will host a film screening of "Let it Be Morning" on February 10 and a talk, "Impossible Hope," on February 11. Mark your calendars!

We are so excited to host the acclaimed author, journalist, and screenwriter Sayed Kashua. <a href="/TannerHumCenter/">Tanner Humanities Center</a> and <a href="/UofUMEC/">U of U Middle East Center</a> will host a film screening of "Let it Be Morning" on February 10 and a talk, "Impossible Hope," on February 11. Mark your calendars!
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“Editors and writers in hallowed periodicals were never mentally prepared for the collapse of their ideology of capitalist globalization and the rapid diminishment of Western power, legitimacy, and prestige…” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

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I generally don’t like to self-promote on this platform, but this article is a love letter to Abdullah Turayqi and Abdulrahman Munif, and to the amazing Middle East librarians everywhere, so… cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Abdülhamid'den önceki ve sonraki padişahlarda rastlanmayan kişisel mülk edinme meselesi kitabın en ilginç kısımlarından. Stratejik öneme sahip, gelir getiren arazi ve işletmeler padişah mülkü haline getirilip (bkz. birinci fotoğraf), idaresi Hazine-i Hassa'ya bırakılıyor.

Abdülhamid'den önceki
ve sonraki padişahlarda
rastlanmayan kişisel mülk edinme meselesi kitabın en ilginç kısımlarından. 
Stratejik öneme sahip, gelir getiren arazi ve işletmeler padişah mülkü haline getirilip (bkz. birinci fotoğraf), idaresi Hazine-i Hassa'ya bırakılıyor.
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The Middle East Center would like to extend our congratulations to Marriott Library's Marie Paiva. Paiva has received a The Fulbright Program Specialist Award to the United Arab Emirates at the Mohammed bin Rashid Library in Dubai! University of Utah

The Middle East Center would like to extend our congratulations to <a href="/MarriottLibrary/">Marriott Library</a>'s  Marie Paiva. Paiva has received a <a href="/FulbrightPrgrm/">The Fulbright Program</a> Specialist Award to the United Arab Emirates at the Mohammed bin Rashid Library in Dubai! <a href="/UUtah/">University of Utah</a>
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TOMORROW!⁠ Please join us to hear author Alborz Ghandehari speak about his new book - Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle - in conversation with Drs. Maile Arvin and Andrea Baldwin.⁠ Wednesday, February 5, 12pm, CTIHB Jewel Box

TOMORROW!⁠
Please join us to hear author Alborz Ghandehari speak about his new book - Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle - in conversation with Drs. Maile Arvin and Andrea Baldwin.⁠
Wednesday, February 5, 12pm, CTIHB Jewel Box
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Sayed Kashua's "Impossible Hope: The Journey of a Palestinian Writer in Hebrew Literature, Journalism and Popular Culture" is TODAY! 12pm in the Jewel Box

Sayed Kashua's "Impossible Hope: The Journey of a Palestinian Writer in Hebrew Literature, Journalism and Popular Culture" is TODAY!
12pm in the Jewel Box
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Join Environmental Humanities and the Middle East Center for Chris Low's "The Water Prince and the Saltwater Kingdom: Muhammad Bin Faisal and the Saudi Desalination Revolution" on Tuesday, February 25 in the CTIHB Jewel Box.

Join Environmental Humanities and the Middle East Center for Chris Low's "The Water Prince and the Saltwater Kingdom: Muhammad Bin Faisal and the Saudi Desalination Revolution" on Tuesday, February 25 in the CTIHB Jewel Box.
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We look forwarding to hosting Michael Christopher Low at Duke on March 25. Join us for his public talk at 1 PM in the Rubenstein Library! Hope to see you there.

We look forwarding to hosting Michael Christopher Low  at Duke on March 25. Join us for his public talk at 1 PM in the Rubenstein Library! Hope to see you there.
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New desalination technology being tested in California could lower costs of tapping seawater - Los Angeles Times apple.news/AcckNkyjcQNO64…