The Pasha’s New Clothes with professor dana sajdi

MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2023 4:00 PM (PST)

HSSB 4080

Presented by UCSB’s Department of History

Dana Sajdi, a professor of history at Boston College, will explore a booklist found in a recently discovered ‘library catalogue’ from a college in 18th-century Acre. Endowed by the Ottoman governor of the region Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar, the library seems to have been one of the largest in the Ottoman Levant. Dana will introduce the vanity collection that the Pasha used to display his new clothes.