Blog/Podcast

PODCAST: The Icy Gale of Death
Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.

BLOG: Plotting in a Time of Cholera
Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of the sanitary internationalism.

PODCAST: Prophet of Reason
Charlie Ough in conversation with Peter Hill about Dr Mikha’il Mishaqa, the Mount Lebanon-born polymath and US Vice Consul in Damascus.

BLOG: A Tale of Two Towers
Gert Huskens tells the story of two water towers, one in Tangier, the other in Utrecht, that connect the histories of global entrepreneurship and sanitary internationalism.

PODCAST: Quarantine Questions
Giorgio Ennas in conversation with Şahin Yeşilyurt.

BLOG: The Foreigner in Piraeus
Anna Batzeli, postdoctoral researcher at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

BLOG: Mogador
Ali Al Tuma visits the past and present of Essaouira, a city of timeless beauty that bears the scars of plague and cholera.
