Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek

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Anna-Latifa Mourad is a historian and archaeologist who explores the links between cultural encounters and socio-cultural transformations. She has focused her research on relations between ancient Egypt and Western Asia during the Third and Second Millennia BCE, particularly on the movement of concepts, objects, and people across geographic, social, and cultural borders. She has worked on several archaeological field projects, including those at Saqqara and Beni Hassan in Egypt, and is currently a member of the Beni Hassan Project. Her first research monograph, 'Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period', investigates Egyptian-Levantine encounters and how they were tied to the rise of the Fifteenth Dynasty. Her most recent book, 'The Enigma of the Hyksos, Vol II: Transforming Egypt into the New Kingdom', explores the impact of the Hyksos and Egyptian relations with Western Asia on socio-political, religious, and technological developments in Egypt as it transitioned from the Middle to the early New Kingdom. Anna's current research examines how communities resiliently adapted to shifting long-distance connectivities across the Middle to early Late Bronze Age.