#  "Sultan Suleiman as King Solomon and Zahir al-Umar as Ahasuerus: The Ottoman Arab Culture of Palestinian Jews, 1517-1799" by Orit Bashkin 

 



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 **May 2, 2024** 

 05:00PM - 06:30PM EDT 

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 **Room 110 (Thompson Room), Barker Center**  



 

 



 

 The Center for Jewish Studies and Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program are proud to present the inaugural lecture in the Series on Jewish-Muslim Interrelations:

###  Sultan Suleiman as King Solomon and Zahir al-Umar as Ahasuerus: The Ottoman Arab Culture of Palestinian Jews, 1517-1799

####  **Orit Bashkin**, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago

   ![Orit Bashkin lecture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/aisp/files/huis_jm_lecture_r4.jpg?itok=w4JPjuIJ) 

 

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   ![Gaza 16th century](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/aisp/files/gaza_16th_century.jpg?itok=wsztUJDN) 

 

Gaza, Jewish travel account, Italy, late 16th century / image courtesy of Orit Bashkin

 

 



 

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