Mostafa Minawi is a professor of history at Cornell University. Broadly, his research focuses on imperialism, race, and experiential history at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in southwest Asia and northeastern Africa. He is the author of The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy from the Sahara to the Hijaz (Stanford University Press, 2016) and Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, 2022). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled A Global History of a Rooftop in Jerusalem that explores Ottoman-Ethiopian relations at the turn of the Century by focusing on holy sites in Jerusalem and the strategic port cities of the Horn of Africa. He received his PhD in History and Middle East Studies from NYU, his MA in History from the University of Toronto, a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and management from McMaster University, and worked as a consultant in banking in Toronto for many years before entering academia and the world of the humanities and social sciences. In his spare time, you will most likely find him on a plane, reading about the airline industry, or looking for a last-minute travel deal. He splits his time between New York City, Ithaca, and research sites in Europe, southwestern Asia, and northeastern Africa.