Heather J. Sharkey is Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (2017), Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003) and American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (2008).

• List of Illustrations and Credit LinesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Global Microhistory and Mobility in the Nile ValleyChapter 2. Zarafa: The Giraffe Who Went to FranceChapter 3. Ali Gifoon and Abd al-Rahman Musa: The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to MexicoChapter 4. Bamba: The Maharaja’s BrideChapter 5. Ahmed Fahmy: The Egyptian Doctor of Changchow, ChinaChapter 6. Molly Crowfoot: Scholar, Maker, Mover, ShakerChapter 7. Henry Athanassian: The Armenian Accountant Who Survived Two EmpiresChapter 8. Conclusion: History Is EverythingBibliography

Crossing Continents is a book that excites wonder. Taking readers by the hand with her engaging prose, Heather Sharkey introduces us one-by-one to a set of keyholes through which she captures a view of the fascinating connected histories of Egypt, the Sudan, and the world in an age of empire, mobility, and globalization... Building from over a decade’s worth of purposeful, capacious detective work across a constellation of Middle Eastern, European and global archives, Sharkey conjures up the voices of individuals whose lives, families, and fortunes were carried on the tides of some of the most important events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the Franco-Prussian War to the Boxer Uprising to the Suez Crisis. Moreover, she brings to these ‘small worlds’ not only the precise, analytical tools of the historian, but also insights drawn from anthropology, sociology, museum studies, and the study of material culture. A testament to a scholar’s joy for the historian’s craft, Crossing Continents is global history at its best: empathetic, multilingual, and ambitious in its storytelling. This is a book that will move and inspire readers who are looking for a usable past, one in which everyone counts and every place matters.

Heather J. Sharkey is Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (2017), Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003) and American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (2008).

• List of Illustrations and Credit LinesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Global Microhistory and Mobility in the Nile ValleyChapter 2. Zarafa: The Giraffe Who Went to FranceChapter 3. Ali Gifoon and Abd al-Rahman Musa: The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to MexicoChapter 4. Bamba: The Maharaja’s BrideChapter 5. Ahmed Fahmy: The Egyptian Doctor of Changchow, ChinaChapter 6. Molly Crowfoot: Scholar, Maker, Mover, ShakerChapter 7. Henry Athanassian: The Armenian Accountant Who Survived Two EmpiresChapter 8. Conclusion: History Is EverythingBibliography

Crossing Continents is a book that excites wonder. Taking readers by the hand with her engaging prose, Heather Sharkey introduces us one-by-one to a set of keyholes through which she captures a view of the fascinating connected histories of Egypt, the Sudan, and the world in an age of empire, mobility, and globalization... Building from over a decade’s worth of purposeful, capacious detective work across a constellation of Middle Eastern, European and global archives, Sharkey conjures up the voices of individuals whose lives, families, and fortunes were carried on the tides of some of the most important events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the Franco-Prussian War to the Boxer Uprising to the Suez Crisis. Moreover, she brings to these ‘small worlds’ not only the precise, analytical tools of the historian, but also insights drawn from anthropology, sociology, museum studies, and the study of material culture. A testament to a scholar’s joy for the historian’s craft, Crossing Continents is global history at its best: empathetic, multilingual, and ambitious in its storytelling. This is a book that will move and inspire readers who are looking for a usable past, one in which everyone counts and every place matters.

Heather J. Sharkey is Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (2017), Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003) and American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (2008).

• List of Illustrations and Credit LinesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Global Microhistory and Mobility in the Nile ValleyChapter 2. Zarafa: The Giraffe Who Went to FranceChapter 3. Ali Gifoon and Abd al-Rahman Musa: The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to MexicoChapter 4. Bamba: The Maharaja’s BrideChapter 5. Ahmed Fahmy: The Egyptian Doctor of Changchow, ChinaChapter 6. Molly Crowfoot: Scholar, Maker, Mover, ShakerChapter 7. Henry Athanassian: The Armenian Accountant Who Survived Two EmpiresChapter 8. Conclusion: History Is EverythingBibliography

Crossing Continents is a book that excites wonder. Taking readers by the hand with her engaging prose, Heather Sharkey introduces us one-by-one to a set of keyholes through which she captures a view of the fascinating connected histories of Egypt, the Sudan, and the world in an age of empire, mobility, and globalization... Building from over a decade’s worth of purposeful, capacious detective work across a constellation of Middle Eastern, European and global archives, Sharkey conjures up the voices of individuals whose lives, families, and fortunes were carried on the tides of some of the most important events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the Franco-Prussian War to the Boxer Uprising to the Suez Crisis. Moreover, she brings to these ‘small worlds’ not only the precise, analytical tools of the historian, but also insights drawn from anthropology, sociology, museum studies, and the study of material culture. A testament to a scholar’s joy for the historian’s craft, Crossing Continents is global history at its best: empathetic, multilingual, and ambitious in its storytelling. This is a book that will move and inspire readers who are looking for a usable past, one in which everyone counts and every place matters.