Sahar Bazzaz, “The Nature of Conquest: P.E. Botta and French Exploration in Mehmet Ali’s Egypt and the Red Sea""
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The Tunisia Office, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Presents:
“The Nature of Conquest: P.E. Botta and French Exploration in Mehmet Ali’s Egypt and the Red Sea"
A Lecture by Sahar Bazzaz, Professor of the History of the Middle East and North Africa at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Sahar Bazzaz received her PhD in History/Middle Eastern Studies from CMES (Harvard University) and is professor of MENA history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Among her publications are: Forgotten Saints: History, Power and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco (HUP, 2010); she is co-editor of and contributor to Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space (HUP, 2013) and co-editor of The Globalization of Science in the Middle East, a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science (2022).
This event will be held in person.
Admission Free
Questions: cmes_tunisia@fas.harvard.edu.