Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2014. His thesis comparing the military occupations of Alexandria, Thessaloniki and Istanbul during and after the First World War was published by Oxford University Press under the title Britain’s Levantine Empire, 1914-1923. Daniel joined the BIAA as a post-doctoral research fellow from 2014 to 2015 and later served as a Research Fellow for the From Enemies to Allies project from 2015 to 2017. After working as Research Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History at Hong Kong Baptist University from 2017 to 2019, he returned to the BIAA as Assistant Director from 2019 to 2023. He is currently a research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale.
Fields of expertise: Ottoman Empire, First World War, nightlife, entertainment, opium.
