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Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn () is professor of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University, and the current Head of the university's Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies. She specializes in Ottoman & Turkish Studies, with a focus on the history of medicine, cultural history and environmental history. Shefer-Mossensohn has attracted international media attention for an online learning course titled "Arab-Islamic History: From Tribes to Empires”, which has garnered "over 20,000 students from 155 countries," including from "Pakistan, Indonesia, Qatar and Afghanistan". It was ranked among top 50 online courses according to one poll. Shefer-Mossensohn is a regular news commentator on Turkey and Middle Eastern affairs in the Israeli press, including in staple news outlets like Ynet and Haaretz ''Haaretz'' (; originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , , ) is an List of newspapers in Israel, Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle East History
The Middle East, or the Near East, was one of the cradles of civilization: after the Neolithic Revolution and the Origins of agriculture in West Asia, adoption of agriculture, many of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations were created there. Since ancient times, the Middle East has had several lingua franca: Akkadian language, Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek language, Greek, and Arabic. The Sumerians, around the 5th millennium BC, were among the first to develop a civilization. By 3150 BC, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian civilization unified under its first pharaoh. Mesopotamia hosted powerful empires, notably Assyria which lasted for 1,500 years. For centuries after the 7th century BC, the region was dominated by Persian powers like the Achaemenid Empire. In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic conquered most of the region, and its successor, the Roman Empire, that ruled from the 6th to 15th centuries AD referred to as the Byzantine Empire, grew significantly more. Religion in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
