M. Christopher Low
@mchrislow.bsky.social
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
Michael Christopher Low - History Department - The University of Utah
history.utah.edu
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...
For more: history.utah.edu/faculty/chri...
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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” 🎊
September 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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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.
March 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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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...
www.compactmag.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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-...
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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
March 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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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Silicon Valley is coming for faculty governance. The vultures are circling the corpse of the neoliberal American university. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
March 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Silicon Valley is coming for faculty governance. The vultures are circling the corpse of the neoliberal American university. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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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?
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.
March 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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?
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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...
uofupress.com/series/Trans...
University of Utah Press |
uofupress.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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...
uofupress.com/series/Trans...
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From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes
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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February 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes
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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...
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is the Middle East?
I'm thrilled to announce publication of my hopefully provocative new Element!
abuaardvark.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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...
abuaardvark.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
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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.
https://buff.ly/4hom5U7
https://buff.ly/4hom5U7
January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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.
https://buff.ly/4hom5U7
https://buff.ly/4hom5U7
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UAE building airstrips and ports around Red Sea and Horn is about far more than “Houthi threat to region”
apnews.com/article/yeme...
apnews.com/article/yeme...
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.
apnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
UAE building airstrips and ports around Red Sea and Horn is about far more than “Houthi threat to region”
apnews.com/article/yeme...
apnews.com/article/yeme...
Excited to join Leiden’s Yemeni Studies Lecture Series with Simon Fraser’s Thomas Kuehn!
January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom
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...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
January 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Excited to join Leiden’s Yemeni Studies Lecture Series with Simon Fraser’s Thomas Kuehn!
January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom
January 27, 6PM (GMT +1) on Zoom
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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! 🗃
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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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-...
"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
January 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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-...
"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-...
Next stop… Ubud, Bali 🇮🇩 🏝️ 🌺🌴🌿🐒🦜
December 31, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Next stop… Ubud, Bali 🇮🇩 🏝️ 🌺🌴🌿🐒🦜
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore
December 31, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore
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This looks great, and hopefully teachable!
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.
December 30, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This looks great, and hopefully teachable!
Hainanese Chicken Rice & Laksa
December 30, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Hainanese Chicken Rice & Laksa
Masjid Jamae (Chulia), Singapore
December 30, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Masjid Jamae (Chulia), Singapore
Chinatown, Singapore
December 30, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Chinatown, Singapore
Kampong Glam, Singapore
December 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Kampong Glam, Singapore
Haji Lane, Singapore
December 29, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Haji Lane, Singapore