| Aryeh Shmuelevitz delivered a paper in May 2004 on “Jewish Historiography in Iran and the Ottoman Empire” at a conference on the historiography of religious minorities in the nineteenth century Middle East held at Haifa University. He attended the sixteenth symposium of CIEPO (International Committee of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies) held in June in Warsaw, where he presented a paper entitled, “The Greek Orthodox Church in Nineteenth Century Bilad al-Sham.” He published “Zionism, Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire as Reflected in the Weekly Hamevasser” in Tudor Parfitt and Yulia Egorova (eds.) Jews, Muslims and Mass Media: Mediating the “Other” (London: Routledge/Curzon, 2004). |