Events
OMAN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ARAB GULF REGION LECTURE
Date and Time
Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Description
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Fahad Bishara as he discusses Oman in the context of the Arab Gulf Region. The event is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of West Michigan, Middle East Studies Program, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Fahad Bishara specializes in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world. His book, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is a legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, told through the story of the Arab and Indian settlement and commercialization of East Africa during the nineteenth century. It was the recipient of the J. Willard Hurst Prize (awarded by the Law and Society Association) and the Jerry Bentley prize (awarded by the World History Association). He is currently working on a history of how the Arab trade between the Gulf and the Indian Ocean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a project which takes on issues of global capitalism, international law, empire, mobility, and scale in historical writing.
Contact
Professor Majd Al-Mallah
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