Human Interaction with the Environment in the Red Sea
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This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region.

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This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region.
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Dionisius A. Agius, Ph.D. (1984), University of Toronto, is a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture at the University of Exeter and Distinguished Professor at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. An ethno-linguist, he studies the life of the traditional watercraft, the people of the sea, their folklore and beliefs. Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean (Brill, 2008) received an Honourable Mention from the Canadian Keith Matthews Prize and was Highly Commended by the British Keith Muckelroy Memorial Award. Emad Khalil, Ph.D. (2005), University of Southampton, is Professor of Maritime Archaeology at the Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt. He is the founder of the Alexandria Centre for Maritime Archaeology & Underwater Cultural Heritage, and the former president of the ICOMOS - International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH). Eleanor Scerri, Ph.D. (2013), University of Southampton, is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. She has published peer-reviewed articles on and conducts extensive fieldwork in the Saharo-Arabian belt, focusing on the archaeology of human evolution. She is the director of the Senegal Prehistory Project. Alun Williams, Ph.D. (1985), SOAS, London, lectures in medieval history at the University of Exeter. Until 2006 he had a long career as teacher and head teacher in English schools. He has been assistant editor of Al-Masãq - the Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean since 2007. His research focuses on twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iberia, medieval biblical culture and imagery in conflict narratives.