How Do 400 Million People Disappear?
Mobile peoples have not disappeared from history. But we can learn not to see them. From Abraham’s tents to pastoral Israel and beyond, what happens when settled assumptions shape what we notice—and what we miss?
The Scholar Who Learned to Hear Ancient Nomads Speak
For centuries, the history of nomadic peoples was largely written by settled outsiders. But across the deserts of ancient Arabia, nomads had been writing all along. The Safaitic inscriptions—and the scholars learning to read them—allow us to hear their voices again.