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Miller Center Virtual Speaker Series: "The Archive Question" With Rosie B'sheer

October 16, 2020 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies | History

Miller Center Virtual Speaker Series: "The Archive Question" With Rosie B'sheer

Friday, October 30, 2020 - 12:00 PM 

Friday, October 30, 2020 - 12:00 PM In her recently published book Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, B'sheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state following the 1991 Gulf War and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca. Postponed from last spring's Miller Center "Truth in History" series. With Ulrike Feitag, Freie Universitat Berline. Moderated by Peter Wien, UMD. via Zoom. Register to attend. Register