Michael Christopher Low is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. Low is the author of \;Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj \;(Columbia University Press\, 2020). In 2021\, \;Imperial Mecca \;received the Middle East Studies Association&rsquo\;s Albert Hourani Book Award and was shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. \;Imperial Mecca \;has also been translated into Arabic and Turkish. He is also the co-editor of \;The Subjects of Ottoman International Law \;(Indiana University Press\, 2020). In 2020-2021\, he was a Senior Humanities Fellow for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is currently working on a new book project tracing the entangled environmental histories of water\, desalination technology\, energy\, and climate change in the Arabian Peninsula.
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