Posted on January 2, 2023 by Liat Kozma
A 4-day international workshop, co-funded by the Israel Science Foundation, the European Research Council and Haifa University, at the Colony Hotel in Haifa, January 9-12, 2023. Download the program... Read More
Posted on July 26, 2020 by Benny Nuriely
In November 2019 some of our MidEastMed team members presented their work at the Middle East Studies Association annual conference that was held in New Orleans. We organized a double panel titled “... Read More
Posted on June 30, 2020 by Neta Talmud
Between November 17 and November 22, 2019, three doctoral students – Annabella Esperanza, Mayan Lalush, and I – together with our supervisor, Prof. Liat Kozma, traveled to Paris to conduct research... Read More
Posted on May 4, 2020 by Leigh Chipman
How it came about The MidEastMed team was awarded a small grant for innovative teaching from the Hebrew University, for a course on the history of medicine in the Middle East in the 2019/20 academic... Read More
Posted on April 19, 2020 by Anabella Esperanza
We gathered at Naveh Shalom/Wāḥat al-Salām, literally “oasis of peace” – a charming place that lives up to its name, nestling in the foothills leading to Jerusalem. Eleven members of our group came... Read More
Posted on March 23, 2020 by Mayan Lalush
In December 2018 I received a surprising email. Atar David, an MA student at Ben Gurion University (today a PhD student in the History Department of the University of Texas at Austin), who had... Read More
Posted on March 19, 2020 by Ahmad Mahmoud
Finger on the Pulse: The Story of the Rambam Hospital, 1918-2018 In February 2019, the Finger on the Pulse exhibition, which reviewed the story of Rambam Hospital in Haifa, opened at the city’... Read More
Posted on June 4, 2019 by Ilan Aronin
On May 26, our team paid a special visit to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. We were invited to a meeting with Yehudit Caplan, the curator for photographic estates at the museum. Mrs. Caplan showed us... Read More
Posted on March 28, 2019 by Leigh Chipman
The jewel in the crown of the MEDMED project’s activities so far was the international conference held at St. Gabriel Hotel, Nazareth, January 7-10, 2019. For almost a week, several dozen scholars... Read More
Posted on March 17, 2019 by Ilan Aronin
The old city of Jerusalem did not tolerate its lepers – men and women; Jews, Muslims and Christians – who lived together in filthy huts near Zion and Jaffa Gates. In 1865, A German couple of nobility... Read More