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1. Gizem Kahraman Aksoy I presented a paper entitled In Pursuit of a Modern Home: Shared Vernacular Temporalities and Modern Aspirations of the Nationals and Transnationals in Qatar at the conference: “The Modern House: Anthropological Perspectives on the Transformation of Vernacular Houses”, 9-11 March at Heidelberg University, Institute of Anthropology (Online). 2. Lucy Barkley In March 2021 I presented a paper entitled Recipes for the Future: Culinary heritage, belonging and the national imaginary among Palestinians in Britain, at the Association of Social Anthropologists’ Annual International Conference.

Welcome to this, the second of the Research Newsletters that has now been expanded to incorporate both PGR and general research news. The purpose of the newsletter is to keep you up to date about research activities, news, and publications, including those of the Research Centres in the IAIS, and IAIS staff. This is your Newsletter so please do send me contributions for the next issue by Friday 17th September 2021. Professor Timothy Insoll, Director of Research

The Treasury. Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria (photo. T. Insoll)

Welcome to this, the second of the Research Newsletters that has now been expanded to incorporate both PGR and general research news. The purpose of the newsletter is to keep you up to date about research activities, news, and publications, including those of the Research Centres in the IAIS, and IAIS staff. This is your Newsletter so please do send me contributions for the next issue by Friday 17th September 2021.

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Also in March, I presented at the University of Toronto’s Medusa Anthropology Conference, paper title Rebellious Hunger: Food, memory and futurity in the Palestinian diaspora. And in April I presented at the University of California, Irvine’s Anthropology in Transit Conference. This paper was Culinary Constellations: Family recipes as spatio-temporal maps in the Palestinian diaspora. In September, I will be presenting a new paper at the Royal Geographical Society’s Annual International Conference. 3. Lara Fricke I published a photo essay on Roots Resistance. (https://www.rootsresistance.com/reflections/liberation-through-joy) 4. Alessandro Ghidoni I had this paper published: - Ghidoni, A. and Vosmer, T., 2021. Boats and Ships of the Arabian Gulf and the Sea of Oman Within an Archaeological, Historical and Ethnographic Context. In: Jawad, Laith, A. (Eds.), The Arabian Seas: Biodiversity, Environmental Challenges and Conservation Measures. pp. 957–989. I also participated to the following conferences and seminars: - EAC12, 12th Experimental Archaeology Conference, World Tour (March 29 - April 1, 2021) with the paper titled: The value of experimental archaeology projects for the study of medieval boatbuilding in the western Indian Ocean. - 86th Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting (April 14-18, 2021), Lighting Round An Ocean of Connections: Tangible and Intangible Exchanges in the Indian Ocean World with the paper titled: The Ship Timbers from the Islamic Site of Al Baleed: A Case Study of Sewn-Plank Technology in the Indian Ocean. - Watercraft of the Islamicate World Lecture Series (May 18, 2021) organised by the Centre for Islamic Archaeology of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, with the paper titled: Materials, techniques and technology of medieval watercraft of the western Indian Ocean. 5. Lena Obermaier I published an article: https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/germanys-silence-on-israeli-violence-is-deafening/

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6. Hannah Parsons-Morgan I had a paper published in a conference proceedings: Parsons-Morgan, H. 2021. "The consumption of Chinese ceramics as architectures features on the Swahili Coast: examples from the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania", in Giorgio, M. (ed).Storie [di] Ceramiche 7: Bacini Ceramici, Pisa: Edizioni All'Insegna del Giglio s.a.s, pp.13-21. And was co-author in: Insoll, T., Khalaf, N., MacLean, R., Parsons-Morgan, H., Tait, N., Gaastra, J., Beldados, A., Pryor, A., and Evis, L. 2021. “Material Cosmopolitanism: The Entrepot of Harlaa as Islamic Gateway to Eastern Ethiopia,” Antiquity 95: 487-507. Also, Dr. Nick Tait and I will be presenting at a conference next month: Parsons-Morgan, H. and N. Tait. Ceramic Materiality in Islamic Eastern Ethiopia: Consumption and Modification of local and Chinese Ceramics at Mediaeval Harlaa, Ceramics from Islamic Lands, Victoria & Albert Museum (Virtual), Monday 19 to Friday 23 July 2021.

Due to advice from the SSIS Graduate Research School, we are not allowed to list the names and PhD titles of all recent graduates or new starters, unless they specifically give their permission. Our congratulations are offered to the authors of these recently completed PhD theses who allowed their details to be included. Other PhD completions are referred to in the Research Centre Reports where included: Nathan Anderson. The Materiality of Islamisation as Observed in Archaeological Remains in the Mozambique Channel (Timothy Insoll S1, Emily Selove S2). Alessandro Ghidoni. The Ship Timbers from the Islamic Site of al-Balid: A Case Study of Sewn-Plank Technology in the Indian Ocean (John Cooper S1, Timothy Insoll S2).

On Saturday 12th June there was a picnic for the IAIS PGR students and their families in the walled garden next to the IAIS building, with funding for the catering kindly provided by the IAIS. We had glorious weather and it was so nice to get together for a social for the first time this academic year - in fact, it was the first time many of us met in person - and in total we were around 25 people. We hope to have another one towards the end of the summer, or perhaps in September once the new PGR's arrive on campus, COVID willing. Thank you all for attending, Hannah Parsons-Morgan

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The last session of the current series is on: 29th June 2-4pm Nur Efeoglu - Reading the Hidden Stories in Museum Galleries: Analysis of the Displays and Labels Rob Fuller - Orientation and Decoration of Synagogues of Late Antiquity Dr Nathan Anderson - The Materiality of Islamisation Observed in Archaeological Remains in the Mozambique Channel Enquiries Please contact the organising committee for any queries: Vito Morisco (vm291@exeter.ac.uk) Hannah Parsons-Morgan (hp382@exeter.ac.uk) Lena Obermaier (lo317@exeter.ac.uk) Francesco Buono (fb430@exeter.ac.uk)

The centres currently in the IAIS and their directors are:

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1. The European Centre for Palestine Studies The Centre’s activity can be divided into two phases in the period March to June 2021. Until the second week of May, the Center was busy together with Exeter Decolonization Network with organizing a series of conversations on Palestine and decolonization between the Director of the ECPS, Professor Ilan Pappe and known scholars and public figures. Among them Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Judith Butler, Nadine El-Enany and Paul Gilroy. Alongside these conversation there were guest lectures on more focused topic related to Palestine (by Mezna Qato, Dana El-Kurd, Emil Badarin, Hana Suleiman and Francesco Saveiro Leopardi. The second phase was influenced by the events in Palestine and were covered by several webinars and PGR discussions on the topic. Ilan Pappe 2. Centre for the Study of Islam The Centre for the Study of Islam continues to run regular weekly seminars and text reading groups for the CSI community online. Alongside those activities, our Facebook live seminar series joint with Habib University on Islam After Colonialism in South Asia continues to be successful with a large viewing (averaging 25,000 views) and impact and will conclude at the end of June. A new series on the same theme going beyond South Asia will start in the autumn. We have also continued to organise special and timely lectures online on Uyghurs with Sean Roberts (George Washington University), on religious practice in Jerusalem with Kenny Schmitt (Al-Quds Bard), and on the art and architecture of al-Aqsa mosque with Mohammad Ghosheh. The culmination of this year’s activities will be our research afternoon on 30 June on Pierre Hadot and the Decolonial Study of Islam with a range of speakers in North America on zoom and a small attendance in person in the IAIS; we are planning a series of such workshops on the decolonial study of Islam that will continue next year. Sajjad Rizvi

Maqam for Arabic Studies (MAS) Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI) Prof. Sajjad Rizvi Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies (CPIS)

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Centre for Kurdish Studies (CKS) Prof. Christine Robins Centre for Gulf Studies (CGS) Prof. Marc Valeri European Centre for Palestine Studies (ECPS)

Prof.Ilan Pappe Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab

Centre for Islamic Archaeology (CfIA) Prof. Timothy Insoll

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3. Centre for Kurdish Studies Although we haven’t been hosting in-person events during the past 3 months, it has been a busy time for all members of the Centre for Kurdish Studies. We maintained an online presence, with the continuation of our various online series of seminars, most of which began in February. ‘Curating Kurdishness: Exeter/AUIS conversations,’ jointly organized by Christine Robins with Dr Alana Marie Levinson LaBrosse of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani (AUIS), hosted Dr Bushra Kasnazani on ‘The History of Taboo in Kurdish Literature’ and took an extended Newroz break but returned in June with ‘Dengî Gelî Kurdistan: Kurdish Radio in 20th-Century Iraq’, a discussion with ethnomusicologist Jon Bullock. The final event, on 30 June, will focus on Slêmani City of Literature. Both Exeter and Slemani are part of the UNESCO network of Cities of Literature; with the deepening of our relationship with the Kashkul arts and research collective in Slemani, and the activities in Exeter of poet, ‘Kashkuler’ and PhD researcher Bryar Bajalan, (such as the Shubbak festival https://www.shubbak.co.uk/bringing-images-home/) we hope this network will play a greater part in our work in the future. The Exeter-AUIS conversations are available on the AUIS YouTube channel. The series ‘Documenting and Archiving Kurdish Heritage’ jointly organized by Dr Farangis Ghaderi with Dr Joanna Bochenska of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, was part of the project ‘Citizens of the World: Modern Kurdish Literature and Heritagisation as a Means for Transforming and Revitalising the Kurdish Language and the Oral Tradition’, funded by the National Science Centre of Poland. In this context a series of seminars with leading researchers were held. From March this included the following events: 9 March, ‘Documenting and Archiving Kurdish Written Heritage (part II)’ with Zheen Centre founders and directors, Rafiq Salih & Seddiq Salih; 16 March ‘Reflections on Dengbêjs (oral poets/storytellers) as Narrators of the Past’ with Dr Metin Yüksel; on 20th April ‘Dengbejs' Performance as Inspiration for Modern Kurdish Theatre and Music’ with Dr Duygu Çelik and our own alumnus Dr Argun Çakir; on 29 April ‘Translation and Language Revitalisation: Global Kurdish Literature,' chaired by Professor Michelle Bolduc, with Dr Joanna Bochenska, Dr Farangis Ghaderi, Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel and Dr Francesco Marilungo; on 4 May ‘Women dengbêjs and women collectors’ with Gulê Şadkam, Evîndar Şevîn, Bêrîvan Matyar and Dr Marlene Schäfers; 25 May, Kurdish Translations of World Literature with participation of Kurdish authors and translators Ferixa Adsay, Sherzad Hasan, Dian Jamel Salih and Sezgin Firat; 8 June, "Translating Kurdish into Kurdish: inter-dialectal translations" with Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, Esat Sanli, Besam Mistefa and Jiyar Homer. A new series, Conversations about Kurdistan and Palestine ‘Rurality, rural lives, and alternative futures’, began on 26 April with ‘Biodiversity, Violence and Resistance,’ by Mazen Qumsiyeh from the University of Bethlehem. This series is convened though Sciences-Po, Paris by : Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel, Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, Fadia Panosetti, and one of Exeter’s PhD researchers, Schluwa Sama. This was followed on 24 May by, ‘Agriculture and The Value of Land within Environmental Change’ with Schluwa Sama,and Mauro Van Aken ; on 14 June by ‘Mobility and Labour Relations in Times of Pandemic’, with Rafeef Ziadah, and Dr Michaël Thevenin.

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We’re very happy to see the publication of the volume ‘Women's voices from Kurdistan. A Selection of Kurdish Poetry’, edited by Dr Farangis Ghaderi, Dr Clémence Scalbert Yücel, Dr Yaser Hassan Ali www.tplondon.com/product/women-voices/. This important contribution to the field is the result of years of work by the editors, with contributions by many members of IAIS, staff, students and PhD researchers, through fora such as the Respect festival and the Exeter festival of literature. Some of the themes are taken up in Dr Scalbert-Yucel and Dr Ghaderi’s new publication ‘An Etat present of the Kurdish Literature in Translation,’ newly published in The Translator. Congratulations are due to Argun Çakir on the award of his PhD ‘From charity-seekers to musicians: An ethnography of peripatetic adaptation around Nisêbîn (Nusaybin), southeastern Turkey.’ We send him our warmest wishes! We have also been delighted to consolidate our relationships with some very important partners in Kurdistan. Last week, we signed MoUs with both the Zheen archive, https://zheen.org/en/home/, which holds perhaps the most important collection of early literature and print from Southern Kurdistan, and the Kurdistan Heritage Institute, https://khi.omeka.net/collections/browse, which houses a huge sound archive. We hope to deepen our partnership with both orgaisations in terms of digitization, and mutual visits for research purposes. Their resources will be of huge benefit for our researchers at MA and PhD level. In May we gave official form to a long friendship by signing an MoU with the American University of Iraq Sulaimani (AUIS), https://auis.edu.krd/, which, through its research and arts institute Kashkul, https://auis.edu.krd/kashkul, has provided local support for our networking activities, participated in our research and teaching events, and is now our partner in the AHRC-funded project ‘Sinjar Lives’, known as Shingal Lives. This one-year project, which began in February, is a community-driven oral history of Sinjar, the home of a large Ezidi (Yazidi) community who suffered genocide and displacement at the hands of ISIS in 2014. The project is training and supporting young Ezidis to be custodians of their endangered immaterial heritage by collecting, ethically archiving and placing on open access as much of the oral tradition as possible. For more details on this project, contact Christine Robins. Christine Robins 4. Centre for Islamic Archaeology Archaeological fieldwork was still, unfortunately, an impossibility because of the pandemic but CfIA members continued a varied programme of activities including a virtual tea break on Teams every Friday which continued until April, having been a weekly event for just over 12 months. The main online event held by the CfIA was the Watercraft of the Islamicate World seminar series, organized and chaired by John Cooper (see list of titles below for seminars held since March). This has been very well attended and probably everyone interested in relevant maritime archaeology and heritage with access to a computer has participated at one or other of the seminars! A new seminar series is in planning for the Autumn co-organised and co-

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chaired by Timothy Insoll and Awet Teklehimanot Araya on the Medieval Archaeology of the Horn of Africa. Details will be provided in the September issue of the Research Newsletter. Centre members have also produced various publications and participated in different online conferences and seminars as detailed in their individual profiles elsewhere in this Newsletter. Finally, congratulations are due to Dr Nathan Anderson and Dr Alessandro Ghidoni on successfully completing their PhDs. Timothy Insoll CfIA Watercraft of the Islamicate World lecture series 9 March 14:00hrs Frame-first or shell-first? Some observations on vessel construction in a western Indian Ocean context. Dr Eric Staples (Zayed University) 16 March 11:00hrs A Ship of Islam: Aspects of the Phanom-Surin Ship, Thailand. Ms Abhirada Komoot (Flinders University) 23 March 14:00hrs Vernacular fighting craft of the early modern Persian Gulf. Mr Mick de Ruyter (Flinders University) 27 April 11:00hrs The Lambur Shipwreck: Archaeological excavation in Tanjung Jabung Timur, Jambi, Indonesia. Dr Ali Akhbar (Universitas Indonesia) 4 May 11:00hrs Aspects of design and function in traditional boats of Oman. Dr Tom Vosmer (University of Western Australia) 11 May 14:00hrs Red Sea Arabia: Medieval coastal landscape and seascape in al-Maqdisῑ’s 10th-century geography. Prof. Dionisius A. Agius (University of Exeter) 18 May 14:00hrs Materials, techniques and technology of medieval watercraft of the western Indian Ocean. Mr Alessandro Ghidoni (University of Exeter) 25 May 14:00hrs The Umm Lajj Ottoman merchant ship in context. Prof. Chiara Zazzaro (University of Naples 'l'Orientale')

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1 June 11:00hrs A Vietnamese anchorage for Indian Ocean merchants during the Maritime Silk Route period. Jun Kimur (Tokai University) and Ian McCann (University of New England) 5. Maqam for Arabic Studies For the first time at IAIS, the Arabic team organized The 3rd Biennial Arabic Language Teaching & Learning in the UK Higher Education Conference at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, on April 8-9, 2021. The conference took place online and the organizing committee included Abla Oudeh Mahmoud and Giorgia Ferrari from the university of Exeter, Rasha Suliaman from the University of Leeds, Amirah Mills from KCL and Mark Critchley from the University of Durham along with 8 members for the scientific committee from different UK universities. To manage the technical part of the conference, we assigned two PTAs, Awet Teklehimanot Araya and Hannah Parsons-Morgan, to help with running the conference online over two days, organizing sessions and collecting feedback and they both did an excellent job. The main theme of the conference was Arabic in a Globalised World with the following sub- themes:

1- Pedagogical Approaches to TAFL: 2- Diversity in the Classroom 3- Professional Development 4- Literature, Translation and Trans-cultural Studies in TAFL

The conference hosted three keynote speakers; Dr Victoria Aguilar from the University of Murcia, Spain, Dr. Laila Familiar from NYU, Abu Dhabi and Dr. Rasha Sulaiman from the University of Leeds. Participations included 22 papers and workshops presented by speakers from Canada, USA, Tunisia, UK, Nigeria, Turkey and Jordan with around 200 attendees for each day of the conference. There was an online quiz at the end of each day managed by the organizing committee with participation from the audience and prizes sponsored by Qatar Foundation International. A feedback form was sent to all participants and audience, and we have received very good feedback and detailed comments on the conference organization and management. Colleagues from Cambridge announced in the conference closing session that the University of Cambridge will be hosting the 4th conference in 2023. Abla Oudeh Mahmoud

1. Dionisius Agius Published:

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1. “Al-Muqaddasī’s tenth-century maritime landscapes of the Arabian Red Sea”, in Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World, ed. Himanshu Prabha Ray, pp. 79 - 96. London: Routledge, 2021. 2. “Where Facts and History Meet Myth and Legend: Groups or Communities in the Marvels of India Stories Model”, Indian Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 76, iii, pp. 1-19, 2020.

3. Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman: People of the Dhow, pp. iv-xvi + 285.London: Kegan Paul Limited, 2005; paperback edition Routledge, 2009. Arabic translation and commentary by Sultan Almujaiwel and Hamad Muhammad Bin Serai (Abu Dhabi: Kalima, 2020). 2. Billie Jeanne Brownlee, and Maziyar Ghiabi Published: "The Mythological Machine in the Great Civil War (2001–2021): Oikos and Polis in Nation-Making." Middle East Critique (2021): 1-22. 3. John Cooper ExArch podcast: Participated in a live maritime-themed discussion of experimental archaeology and ethnographic investigation of craft practices as part of ExArch's Finally Friday podcast series.

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4. William Gallois Published:

1) https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fcendrillondefes%2F&data=04%7C01%7CT.Insoll%40exeter.ac.uk%7C0d2343146cfb4327ffc508d930a2f22f%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637594298661618304%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=rgqe8ML7PklInRcPhOhRov4uv0iHq1tuZEIYQkkR%2BqA%3D&reserved=0 2) @cendrillondefes -if you are on Instagram 3) DOI and page references to placement in American Historical Review forthcoming. 5. Farangis Ghaderi It is a real pleasure to announce the publication of the volume "Women's voices from Kurdistan. A Selection of Kurdish Poetry", Edited by Farangis Ghaderi, Clémence Scalbert Yücel, Yaser Hassan Ali www.tplondon.com/product/women-voices/

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The translations in this bilingual volume are the fruit of a collective work started a few years ago (some of you will remember the readings at the Respect Festival or Exeter Literary Festival) engaging various colleagues and students (PhD but also UG) at the IAIS (in Arabic and Kurdish Studies), and in Translation Studies and Creative writing at Exeter. This collaboration across disciplines and languages has been one of the most enjoyable aspect of the project! Thank you so much to all of you who took part in this adventure. We hope more will follow! Publications: 1. Ghaderi. F., Scalbert Yücel, and C., Ali, Y. (2021). Women’s Voice From Kurdistan. Translational Press: London. https://www.tplondon.com/product/women-voices/ 2. Ghaderi, F. and Scalbert Yücel, C. (March 2021). 'An Etat Présent of the Kurdish literature in English Translation'. The Translator. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556509.2021.1872196?src=&journalCode=rtrn20 3. Ghaderi, F. (April 2021), ‘The History of Kurdish Poetry,’ The Cambridge History of the Kurds. Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes, and Veli Yadirgi (eds.). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/regional-and-world-history-general-interest/cambridge-history-kurds?format=PB Interview: “A History of Kurdish Poetry” with Faculti https://faculti.net/a-history-of-kurdish-poetry/ Panel discussions: I have organised 9 panel discussion (Feb-June) in collaboration with the Section of Kurdish Studies of the Jagiellonian University; The panels were part of our project, “Citizens of the World: Modern Kurdish Literature and Heritagisation as a Means for Transforming and Revitalising the Kurdish Language and the Oral Tradition,” funded by the National Science Centre of Poland. For details see - https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/staff/ghaderi/ 6. Adam Hanieh Published: "State Formation in the Middle East: The GCC and the Political Economy of the Regional Scale" in Striking From the Margins: State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East edited by Aziz Al-Azmeh, Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Harith Hasan, Harout Akdedian (Saqi Books, 2021). "Class, Nation, Socialism" International Politics Reviews (2021), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41312-021-00104-2

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And organised: 1. An online workshop on 27 March for the "New Regionalisms Working Group" of the Arab Council of Social Sciences, attended by 20 invited participants from the Middle East, North America, Europe, and Asia. 2. An online seminar as part of the Ten Years On Project, an initiative of the Arab Studies Institute, Princeton University’s Arab Barometer, and George Mason’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program. IAIS is one of the 15 international co-sponsors of this year-long series that commemorates the ten year anniversary of the Arab uprisings. The seminar was jointly organised by IAIS and the Arab Council of Social Sciences, and was entitled "Exploring the New Regional Dynamics of the Middle East". Dr. Maziyar Ghiabi spoke at this seminar on behalf of IAIS. The event is available to view here https://www.facebook.com/Jadaliyya/videos/158742222893462/ and has had over 9400 views to date. 7. Timothy Insoll Edited:

Insoll, T. (ed.). (2021). The Archaeology of Complexity and Cosmopolitanism in Medieval Ethiopia. Special Section. Antiquity 95: 450-548. Published:

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1. Insoll, T. 2021. The Archaeology of Complexity and Cosmopolitanism in Medieval Ethiopia. An Introduction. Antiquity 95: 450-466. https://www.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.168 2. Tait, N., and Insoll, T. 2021 Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Centre of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia: Markers of Chronology and Contacts. African Archaeological Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-021-09435-9 3. Insoll, T., Khalaf, N., MacLean, R., Parsons-Morgan, H., Tait, N., Gaastra, J., Beldados, A., Pryor, A.J.E., Evis, L., and Dussubieux, L. 2021. Material Cosmopolitanism: The Entrepot of Harlaa as Islamic Gateway to Eastern Ethiopia. Antiquity 95: 487-507. https://www.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.169 4. Insoll, T., Carter, R. A., Almahari, S., and MacLean, R. 2021. Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the Implications for Christianity, Islamisation, and Settlement in Bahrain. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 32: 1-27. 5. Insoll, T. 2021. Marine Shell Working at Harlaa, Ethiopia, and the Implications for Red Sea Trade. Journal of African Archaeology 19: 1-24.

6. Insoll, T. 2021. Harlaa - Lost City of the Medieval Sultanate of Harla, Ethiopia. Tri-lingual exhibition booklet in English, Afaan Oromo, and Amharic, to accompany Harlaa Site Museum, 34pp. Exeter: University of Exeter.

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Curated: 1. Tri-lingual exhibition panel texts and booklet for archaeological site museum, Harlaa - Lost City of the Medieval Sultanate of Harla, Ethiopia. 2. Exhibition texts and artifact selections and labels for Ancient Islamic Societies section, Historical Archaeology Gallery, National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Gave lectures: 1. The Fourteenth Century: An Archaeological Perspective from Islamic Eastern Ethiopia, Historians of Islamic Art Association Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2. The ‘Polysemic’ Qualities of Shrines in Northern Ghana, Keynote lecture, Sacred Nature, Divinity, Agency and Materiality in Ancient Religions workshop, Centre for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Florence, Italy. 3. Becoming Muslim. Exploring the Archaeology of Trade and Religious Conversion in Medieval Eastern Ethiopia, Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology, University of Manchester. 8. Istvàn Kristo-Nagy Published: “Wild Lions and Wise Jackals: Killing kings and clever counsellors in Kalīla wa-Dimna”, in Emily J. Cottrell (ed.), Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers: Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature, Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, Groningen, 2020, ISBN 9789493194199, pp. 147-209. 9. Davide Pettinato Reports that: An interdisciplinary proposal I wrote with Prof Catriona McKinnon as PI (Politics), and Profs Kevin Gaston (Sustainability Institute) and Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry University) as Co-Is for the AHRC-NERC's 'Hidden histories of environmental science: partnership seed fund' was successful. The project builds on my research on Muslims and the environment, and will enable us to bring together theories from political philosophy (McKinnon), environmental science (Gaston), decolonisation and sociology of Islam in the UK (Cheruvallil-C.), to develop a larger proposal examining hidden histories of inequality and resilience among UK Muslim environmental scientists. Competition was very high, with 56 applications received.

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I am among the organisers of the Gw4 Climate Symposium - Climate change: solutions and how to communicate them, taking place online on 22-23rd June 2021. This is a free symposium designed to facilitate networking between ECRs working across different disciplines with an interest in solutions to addressing climate change. The session I co-chair is on Traditional Natural Resource Management and will feature a keynote from a Moroccan expert on traditional hydraulic systems in North Africa (khettara) and their relevance in today's changing climate. 10. Emily Selove: Published: 2021. Popeye and Curly: 120 Days in Medieval Baghdad. Fargo (ND): Theran Press.