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M. Christopher Low

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Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’m beginning the process of moving my presence to this platform. For those that don’t know my work, I’ve written about the Ottoman Empire, the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Hajj, the Indian Ocean, disease, and environmental history.

For more: history.utah.edu/faculty/chri...

Michael Christopher Low - History Department - The University of Utah

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just signed a contract with the @uofupress.bsky.social for the publication of the volume I co-edit with @kmkentel.bsky.social, “Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City” 🎊

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congratulations! Tebrikler! We are so excited to work with you on this exciting project!

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Mar 26

Super excited about the new MA we are launching next academic year (in September 2025) at Exeter. I have been reviewing loads of MAs elsewhere and designed a programme that helps both those who are looking for critical intellectual engagement, AND paths to career development.

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Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social · Mar 18

Universities used DEI to attract students and then used the backlash to gut faculty power and faculty governance. And not enough people have noticed. www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

How Business Metrics Broke the University

In a recent interview with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo pivoted from his usual focus on the ideological biases of higher education...

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · Mar 15

It's a bad sign that I, a US professor with two kids who will be applying to college in the next few years, am exploring the process of them applying to universities outside of America. The Trump administration is on the verge of destroying US higher education, where we have long been a world leader

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Mar 16

Silicon Valley is coming for faculty governance. The vultures are circling the corpse of the neoliberal American university. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Screenshot from Heller’s article in latest New Yorker quoting donors targeting faculty

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Mar 12

Today would be yet another good day for university presidents to loudly, collectively, & publicly start defending our institutions & industry. The silence is deafening & frankly, incomprehensible. What exactly are you waiting for? How many Columbias, Maines, & Johns Hopkins will it take?

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Feb 22

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

WESA @wesa.fm · Feb 21

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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The University of Utah Press @uofupress.bsky.social · Feb 27

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Feb 26

The Middle East Center @uofuhumanities.bsky.social and @uofupress.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of a new book series, Transregional Middle Easts!

uofupress.com/series/Trans...

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · Feb 23

From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes

Written byRaseef22 This post by Mohamed Yousry, was first published in Arabic by Raseef 22* on February 15, 2025. This edited version was translated into English and published on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. ( Global Voices ) –…

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Feb 4

Congratulations, Marc!

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Feb 4

What is the Middle East? I’m thrilled to announce the publication- and free download - of my new, hopefully provocative Cambridge Element on the theory and practice of regions and area studies. Get it now and let me know what you think!

abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

What is the Middle East?

I'm thrilled to announce publication of my hopefully provocative new Element!

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · Jan 22

CFA: Journal of Global History development editing workshop — #AsianStudies scholars with an interest in global history should check out this new opportunity. Application deadline is March 1.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Jan 17

UAE building airstrips and ports around Red Sea and Horn is about far more than “Houthi threat to region”

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Mysterious airstrip appears on a Yemeni island as Houthi rebel attacks threaten region

The airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean, could provide a key landing zone for military operations patrolling that waterway.

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Jan 16

Excited to join Leiden’s Yemeni Studies Lecture Series with Simon Fraser’s Thomas Kuehn!

January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom

War, Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

This talk analyses the role that concepts of “nature” played in the context of Ottoman imperial governance in the Province of Yemen from its establishment in the early 1870s to the end of Ottoman rule...

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Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social · Jan 16

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Jan 15

Congratulations!

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Dr Andreas Krieg @andreaskrieg.bsky.social · Jan 8

The Gulf states will drastically increase their spending on R&D to become scientific hubs

"That means no longer being seen as just a pool of readily available funds for Western universities. “We want equal participation and benefits"
www.economist.com/science-and-...

How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science

A stronger R&D base, they hope, will transform their countries’ economies. Will their plan work?

www.economist.com

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Dec 31

Next stop… Ubud, Bali 🇮🇩 🏝️ 🌺🌴🌿🐒🦜

M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Dec 31

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore

M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Dec 30

This looks great! Congratulations!

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · Dec 30

This looks great, and hopefully teachable!

David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · Dec 30

Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.

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M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social · Dec 30

Chinatown, Singapore