CMES Director Sherene Seikaly (History) has received a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will be working on her book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine that charts the trajectory of her great-grandfather Naim Cotran (c.1877-1961) from nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon. Cotran was a Palestinian man who was at once a colonial officer and a colonized subject, a slave-holder and a refugee, whose homeland was dismembered. The book places the question of Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.