From cholera, to plague, to COVID-19, contagious diseases have shaped human history in profound ways and offered MENA historians unique lenses into the past.
MAAS student Laila Jadallah and alum Samar Saeed on the generation of Palestinian women whose stories informed their understanding of history and helped shape their own cultural identities…
Revolutionary projects across the region demonstrate the power of oral history to give voice to once-silenced communities and to capture history as remembered by those who lived it.
