The global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two and a half years I am writing in the spring of 2022 has brought with it a renewed interest in public health and, when it comes to the Middle East, broader interest in how populations there e
I wanted to write about a place that challenges normative representations of the Middle East in the broadest sense. The Unsettled Plain defies the conventional framings of the region’s history.
Join us for a live conversation with Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia Chris Gratien as we discuss his new book The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Otto.