UCLA Webinar Series 2022 - Between the Rivers: Water for development, peace & security in the Tigris-Euphrates region
Faisal Husain is assistant professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University. His book, Rivers of the Sultan (Oxford University Press, 2021), examined the role of the Tigris and Euphrates in the establishment of Ottoman state institutions along the Ottoman eastern frontier between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Husain serves on the editorial board of Marmara Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, a Turkology journal based in Turkey, and Global Environment, an environmental history journal based in Italy.
Opening remarks by C. Cindy Fan, Vice Provost for International Studies and Global Engagement; and Ali Behdad, Professor and John Charles Hillis Chair in Literature, Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Moderated by Alden Young, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and International Development Studies.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA International Institute, Engineering