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<h1 style="page-break-after:avoid"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Condensed","sans-serif";font-variant:small-caps;font-weight:normal">The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT Condensed","sans-serif"">Invites you to a Roundtable Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Condensed","sans-serif"">Moderated by Professor Leila Fawaz</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Condensed","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Condensed","sans-serif""> </span><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Jane Hathaway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Professor, Department of History,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Ohio State University<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:88%"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;line-height:88%;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">“Eunuchs in Islamic Civilization”
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Friday, April 1, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">12:00-2:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Fares Center Conference Room
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">(Mugar 129)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Jane Hathaway
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">is Professor of History at Ohio State University and an expert on the Ottoman Empire before 1800, particularly the Ottoman Arab provinces. She is currently a member of the board of the Middle East Studies
Association of North America. Previously, she was president of the Turkish Studies Association from 2002 to 2004 and a member of the American Historical Association’s Professional Division from 2006 to 2009. Hathaway has published four books:
<i>The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlıs </i>(Cambridge University Press, 1997);
<i>A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen </i>
(State University of New York Press, 2003); <i>Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem
</i>(Oneworld, 2006); and <i>The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800 </i>(Pearson/Longman, 2008), as well as numerous articles on related subjects, on the historiography of the Ottoman Empire, and on the seventeenth-century Ottoman Jewish messianic figure
Sabbatai Sevi. Her book <i>A Tale of Two Factions </i>won the 2005 Ohio Academy of History Publication Award while
<i>The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule </i>won the Turkish Studies Association’s 2008 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize. Hathaway is currently engaged in a book-length study of the office of Chief Harem Eunuch in the Ottoman Empire from the office’s inception in 1582
through its abolition in 1909. Hathaway received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Chris Zymaris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Staff Assistant - Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Tel: 617.627.6560 Fax: 617.627.3461<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""><a href="http://farescenter.tufts.edu/">http://farescenter.tufts.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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