Yale University professor Alan Mikhail, an acclaimed author and scholar in Middle Eastern and environmental history and chair of Yale’s Department of History, will spearhead a new book series, “Middle East Environmental Histories.” The series, which will be published by Leiden University Press, will seek out the best new work on the environmental history of the Middle East from late antiquity to the present, highlighting the ways in which peoples in the Middle East engaged with their environments to produce ideas, states, cultures, literatures, families, and societies. Middle East Environmental Histories will place the region in a more global context while keeping an interdisciplinary focus on the particularities of its environment—its historic role at the crossroads of trade between the Mediterranean and Asia, its cultural and religious diversity, Islam, and modern oil industries.
Series editor:
Alan Mikhail, Yale University
Series Board:
Maaike van Berkel, Radboud University, Netherlands
Amina Elbendary, American University of Cairo
Faisal Husain, Pennsylvania State University
Onur Inal, University of Vienna
Michael Christopher Low, University of Utah
Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
Caterina Scaramelli, Boston University
Sarra Tlili, University of Florida