Dear History Readers,
Professor Bogac Ergene, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Studies Program would like to draw your attention to the following lecture:
“Israel and Occupation: Some Observations on Laws and Popular Perceptions” by Avi Rubin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Avi Rubin is a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University, where he has been a faculty member since 2007. Avi completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His research interests lie in the area of Ottoman social and legal history, with a focus on nineteenth-century socio-legal change and modernity. His book and articles address various aspects of the passage of Ottoman law to modernity, the rule of law in the modern Middle East, and the social history of late Ottoman Palestine. Avi is a member of the Young Scholars Forum at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Friday October 3, 2014
3:30 pm
Davis Center, Room 403, Williams Family Room
