Wednesday, February 15 @ 11:45am. Irus Braverman, SUNY Buffalo, "Animal Frontiers: A Tale of Three Zoos in Israel/Palestine." Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.
Friday, February 17 @ 12:00pm. Oliver Bast, University of Manchester, "Duping the British and Outwitting the Russians? Iranian Foreign Policy and the ‘Bolshevik Threat’, 1917-1921" Room 102, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street.
Thursday, February 23 @ 6:30pm. CMES Cinema: Ice Cream, I Scream, directed by Yüksel Aksu. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
CMES Spring 2012 Colloquium Series: Middle Eastern Environments & Ecologies. Wednesdays @ 11:45am. Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.
CMES Cinema: Spring 2012 Film Series. Thursdays @ 6:30pm. Luce Hall Auditorium.
Al-Ghazali and His Influence. A Workshop on the Occasion of the 900th Anniversary of His Death in 1111. December 9 – 10, 2011
Alan Mikhail has been awarded the Samuel & Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication by Yale and has been named the inaugural recipient of the Roger Owen Book Award for a work in economic history by the Middle East Studies Association for his monograph, “Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History.”
An article by Alan Mikhail, “An Irrigated Empire: The View from Ottoman Fayyum.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 569-90 won the Ömer Lutfi Barkan Prize, a bi-annual prize for the best article in Ottoman studies given by the Turkish Studies Association.