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Hot off the Press is a forum for graduate students, lecturers, and faculty to share their research, talk about the challenges they have encountered and the approaches they have, or are considering in the process of formulating their frames of analysis.

The October round of Hot off the Press will explore entangled histories of confessionalism in the Middle East. Salman Elamir (MES, PhD Candidate) will discuss the ethnographic research he conducted last summer on the Druze community living in Israel, how they remember their past incarnations and spoke about the past through their life stories. Joshua Cole (History, Professor) will talk about the challenges he encountered writing his recent book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria on anti-Jewish violence in French Algeria at a moment of growing rupture between Algeria’s Jews and Muslims. Golriz Farshi (MES, PhD Candidate) will discuss her dissertation chapter that reads the establishment of an endowed charitable complex by a Jewish convert to Islam, Rashid al-Din Fazlallah al-Hamadani, both as an act of individual conversion and the materialization of Mongol collective conversion to Islam.

Joshua Cole (History)
Salman Elamir (MES)
Golriz Farshi (MES)
Moderator: Kathryn Babayan (MES)