Our alumna Nora Derbal has recently published her dissertation "Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism", an ethnographic study of everyday charity practices in Jeddah as part of the Cambridge Middle East Studies book series, published by Cambridge University Press. The book will be presented on October 11, 5 pm at ZMO, in a discussion of Nora Derbal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) with Elad Giladi (ZMO) and Inken Wiese (Universität Konstanz), moderated by Ulrike Freitag.