While on professional leave in Italy, Miran lectures, publishes

Jonathan Miran, an associate professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University, is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy. On March 15, he delivered a lecture there called “Between Control, Co-option and Accommodation: Italian Colonialism and Islam in Eritrea (1885-1941).”

Miran also had eight entries published in the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Ed., S. Uhlig, Volume IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011):

• "Eleonora Onnis" (founder of Asmara University) [with Fr. Ezio Tonini]
• "Quraysh" (tribe of the Prophet Muhammad)
• "Red Sea slave trade in the nineteenth century"
• "Sabderat" (ethnic group in western Eritrea)
• "Sawakin" (Red Sea port town in the Sudan)
• "Semhar" (area in eastern Eritrea)
• "Shafi‘ism" (Islamic legal school)
• "Waqf" (Islamic pious endowment) [with Hussein Ahmed]

Miran is on professional leave in winter and spring quarters 2011.