Itamar Toussia Cohen (Israel)

Itamar holds a BA in Fine Art from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and an MA in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University.

His DPhil dissertation will be a microhistory of imperial infrastructure centred on the British port colony of Aden (present-day Yemen), which he proposes to view not merely as a logistical hub but as a laboratory of governance in which experiments in law, labour control, and commercial regulation insulated global capital from local claims, anticipating later developments such as free-trade zones and offshore economies. Drawing on sources in communal sources in Gujarati, the project will foreground South Asian capitalist groups who played a central role in producing and sustaining these infrastructures.