Mostafa Minawi is a Palestinian-American historian and professor of history at Cornell University. His scholarship focuses on the late Ottoman Empire, imperialism, international law, and transimperial history, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. He is the founding director of Cornell’s Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Initiative at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. and serves on the faculty of History, Africana Studies, Jewish Studies, and Near Eastern Studies.