Join us as we interview Sherene Seikaly associate professor of history and editor on our afikra Conversations series on March 18.
Date: Thursday, March 18
Time: 12PM NYC | 4PM London | 6PM Beirut
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Sherene Seikaly is a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. The most enduring concern of her scholarly research has been to explore how individuals, groups, and governments deploy both concepts and material practices to shape economy, the body, the self, and the other. Her research on Palestinian businessmen; reformers of the domestic sphere; thinkers and scientists; and British colonial officers and institutions contributes to social, cultural, and intellectual history, political economy, cultural studies, and gender studies. Sherene’s new book project follows the trajectory of a peripatetic medical doctor to place Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.