Popular views of the explorer see him as intrepid adventurer or bungling murderer. But he was also a religious crusader.
The following interview with Alan Mikhail, Professor...
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) has selected Camille Cole’s “Empire on Edge: Land, Law, and Capital in Gilded Age Basra” for its Dissertation...
In March, Yale political scientist Elizabeth Nugent was about to start a post-election survey in Tunisia to better understand the effects of repression on political...
Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the department of history, has expanded our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books...
GOD’S SHADOW
Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
By Alan Mikhail
Coming down to Mexico’s Pacific shore one summer day in 1573, a merchant...
The following article on Islamophobia then and now was written by historian Alan Mikhail. It was featured on June 15 in Literary Hub.
Susan Sontag implored us some 40 years...
The Program in Iranian Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is pleased to announce its new Contemporary Iran Forum....