Basma Fahoum is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Stanford University. She holds a master’s degree in culture research from Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation project examines the history of tobacco cultivation in Palestine in the late Ottoman and British Mandatory periods, as well as in Israel. Basma serves as co-editor of the Social History Workshop, a Hebrew-language public history blog published on the website of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz.
Monday, February 6th at noon-1:30pm [Please note the time change]