Saltwater Kingdoms: Fossil-Fueled Water and Climate Change in Arabia

Michael Christopher Low is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. Low is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia University Press, 2020). In 2021, Imperial Mecca received the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Award and was shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. Imperial Mecca has also been translated into Arabic and Turkish. He is also the co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indiana University Press, 2020). In 2020-2021, he was a Senior Humanities Fellow for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is currently working on a new book project tracing the entangled environmental histories of water, desalination technology, energy, and climate change in the Arabian Peninsula.