Michael Winter chaired the panel on Mamluk History and Historiography, and gave a paper, “Egyptian- Ethiopian Relations according to Mamluk Sources,”at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in Montreal in November 2007. He was appointed Visiting Scholar for 2008 at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, where he continued his research project on qadis in Damascus under the Mamluks and the Ottomans. While at Harvard he lectured on his research at the Ottoman graduate seminar. Winter published “The Closest Egyptian-Ethiopian Relationship: the Mamluk Sultanate,” in Israel Gershoni and Meir Hatina (eds.), Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities (LRP, 2008); “Ulama between State and Society in Pre-Modern Sunni Islam,” in Meir Hatina (ed.), Guardians of Faith in Modern Times: Ulama in the Middle East (Brill, 2008); and “The Ottoman Legal Profession” in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2008).

email: winter@post.tau.ac.il