I am a historian of the modern Middle East, currently interested in the history of medicine in the region. My books include Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (2011) and Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East (2017). I am co-edited with Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer - A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (2014) and with Davide Rodogno and Magaly Rodriguez Garcia - The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues: Visions, Endeavours and Experiments (2016). More recent publications explored the history of epidemics and of the medical profession in Egypt, mandate Palestine, and Israel.

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    A caricature depicting Shaykh Abu al-'Ayun's struggle against regulated prostitution, al-Lata'if al-Musawwara, 14.10.1926.

  • Global Women

    "Group of prostitutes on corner of Kara-Oglan-sokak and Grand Rue Galata," The League of Nations Archives, Box S179.

  • Procurer Chaim Blum, Czernowitz Police Photo. The League of Nations Archives, Geneva, Box S179.

    Procurer Chaim Blum, Czernowitz Police Photo. The League of Nations Archives, Geneva, Box S179.

  • An immigrant couple, Egypt, circa 1920.

    An immigrant couple, Egypt, circa 1920.

  • An African Slave, date unknown.

    An African Slave, date unknown.

  • תמונת רופאי שיניים

    Dentists - a picture found in Tel Aviv's streets

  • The medical staff at 'Ain al-Sultan refugee

    The medical staff at 'Ain al-Sultan refugee camp, 1949. ICRC archives, V-P-HIST-E-00058

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