DMES Seminar, Lent Term

Thursdays 5.15pm
Room 10, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tea and coffee from 5pm
ALL WELCOME

• 23 January
  Harry Munt
  University of York
  Towards an environmental history of the early Islamic empire: the politics of water management in Umayyad and early Abbasid Medina

• 6 February
  Vevian Zaki
  Ludwig Maximilians Universität-Munich
  Waqf Tradition in Christian Arabic Manuscripts: Insights from St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai

• 20 February
  Sally Abed
  Trinity College Dublin
  Encountering ‘Monsters’ in Medieval Arab Culture

• 6 March
  Prof. Geoffrey Khan
  Professor of Hebrew
  Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge 
  The Aramaic-speaking minority groups of Iraq and Iran

For further information contact: Prof. Andrew Marsham (adm56@cam.ac.uk)