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SUMMARY:History of Now Lectures Series - A Different Critique: MENA Jewish
  Approaches to Zionism and Imperialism\, 1830-1948
LOCATION:Building E51 095\, 70 MEMORIAL DR\, Cambridge\, MA 02142
DESCRIPTION:History at MIT invites you to join us on Thursday\, November 1
 9th at 5 pm in E51-095 for the final lecture in the History of Now series
 \, featuring Orit Bashkin\, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Mi
 ddle Eastern History and Director of Graduate Studies\, Modern Fields at 
 the University of Chicago. Her talk is titled "A Different Critique: MENA
  Jewish Approaches to Zionism and Imperialism\, 1830-1948."\n\nOrit Bashk
 in\nMabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History\nDirect
 or of Graduate Studies\, Modern Fields\nUniversity of Chicago\n\nThursday
 \, November 19\, 2026\n5-6:30 pm\nMIT Building E51\, Room 095\n\nAbout Or
 it Bashkin\n\nOrit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual\,
  social\, and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She got her Ph.
 D. from Princeton University (2004)\, writing a thesis on Iraqi intellect
 ual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah S
 elim\, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since he
 r graduation\, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Easte
 rn history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 
 at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history\, 
 the history of Iraqi Jews\, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda
 ) in the late 19th century\, and the connections between modern Arab hist
 ory and Arabic literature. Her current research project explores the live
 s of Iraqi Jews in Israel.\n\nTo Attend\n\nAll of these lectures are free
  and open to\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/19e34236-bdb5-4bd9-8595-96477
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