History of Now Lectures Series - On Sultans, Prophets and the Early Modern Amalek: History of Jews in Arab Ottoman Provinces, 1517-1882
Building E51, Room 095, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
History at MIT invites you to join us on Thursday, November 12th at 5 pm in E51-095 for the second lecture in the History of Now series, featuring Orit Bashkin, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and Director of Graduate Studies, Modern Fields at the University of Chicago. Her first talk is titled "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 Director of Graduate Studies, Modern Fields University of Chicago Thursday, November 12, 2026 5-6:30 pm MIT Building E51, Room 095 Public Lectures Dates November 12 On Sultans, Prophets and the Early Modern Amalek: History of Jews in Arab Ottoman Provinces, 1517-1882 November 16 Reluctant Neighbors: History of Jews in Palestine and the Levant, 1700-1850 November 19 A Different Critique: MENA Jewish Approaches to Zionism and Imperialism, 1830-1948 About Orit Bashkin Orit 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 intellectual history…