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SUMMARY:History of Now Lectures Series - On Sultans\, Prophets and the Ear
 ly Modern Amalek: History of Jews in Arab Ottoman Provinces\, 1517-1882
LOCATION:Building E51 095\, 70 MEMORIAL DR\, Cambridge\, MA 02142
DESCRIPTION:History at MIT invites you to join us on Thursday\, November 1
 2th at 5 pm in E51-095 for the second lecture in the History of Now serie
 s\, featuring Orit Bashkin\, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern M
 iddle Eastern History and Director of Graduate Studies\, Modern Fields at
  the University of Chicago. Her first talk is titled "On Sultans\, Prophe
 ts and the Early Modern Amalek: History of Jews in Arab Ottoman Provinces
 \, 1517-1882."\n\nOrit Bashkin\nMabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Mi
 ddle Eastern History\nDirector of Graduate Studies\, Modern Fields\nUnive
 rsity of Chicago\n\nThursday\, November 12\, 2026\n5-6:30 pm\nMIT Buildin
 g E51\, Room 095\n\nPublic Lectures Dates\nNovember 12\nOn Sultans\, Prop
 hets and the Early Modern Amalek: History of Jews in Arab Ottoman Provinc
 es\, 1517-1882\n\nNovember 16\nReluctant Neighbors: History of Jews in Pa
 lestine and the Levant\, 1700-1850\n\nNovember 19\nA Different Critique: 
 MENA Jewish Approaches to Zionism and Imperialism\, 1830-1948\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\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/a494dcbb-0446-42ec-9a
 55-3bb79a6e2353
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