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Alan Mikhail is the Chace Family Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University and author of four award-winning books, most recently God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. His forthcoming book is My Egypt Archive.