Publications

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES

Katia Cytryn-Silverman

Last updated: February 5th, 2019

 

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

1. The Road Inns (Khāns) of Bilād al-Shām during the Mamluk Period (1260-1516): An Architectural and Historical Study. Supervised by Prof. R. Amitai and Prof. M. Rosen-Ayalon.

 

BOOKS

Before appointment

2. Cytryn-Silverman, K. The Road Inns (Khāns) of Bilād al-Shām, BAR International Series 2130, Oxford 2010.

BOOKS EDITED:

3. Talmon-Heller, D. and Cytryn-Silverman, K. (eds.), Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev, June 30th – July 2nd 2009 (organized by the editors), Leiden, 2014.

4. Stiebel, G.D., Uziel, J. , Cytryn–Silverman, K., Re'em, A. and Gadot, Y. (eds.), New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region 10, Jerusalem 2016.

5. Gadot, Y., Zelinger, Y., Cytryn-Silverman, K., Uziel, J. (eds.), New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region 11, Jerusalem 2017.

6. Cytryn-Silverman, K., Damgaard K. and Whtitcomb D. (eds.), Recent Advances in Islamic Archaeology, Chicago, forthcoming in 2019.

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:

7. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Ceramic Finds from the 1996 Excavations North of the White Mosque in Ramla," in S. Gibson and F. Vitto (eds.), Ramla: The Development of a Town from the Early Islamic to Ottoman Period, Israel Antiquities Authority, Department of Excavations and Surveys Booklet no. IV (internal), One-Day Conference 25th March 1999, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 38-42.

8. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Pottery of the Islamic period from the Excavations at Herod's Gate," in G. Avni and Y. Baruch (eds.), The Excavations at Herod's Gate, `Atiqot, Jerusalem (submitted in 2000). (79 pages, Word, double space)

9. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Pottery above the Synagogue Floor," in Z. Weiss (ed.), The Sepphoris Synagogue – Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts, Jerusalem, 2005, pp. 266-276.

10. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Pottery of the Islamic period from Kerem Maharal Excavations," in U. Ad and K. Said (eds.), The Excavations at Kerem Maharal, `Atiqot, Jerusalem (submitted in 2006). (30 pages, Word, double space)

11. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Ramla – The Pottery Results," in O. Gutfeld (ed.), Ramla- Final Report on the Excavations North of the White Mosque, Qedem 51 - Monograph of the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010, pp. 97-213. See #4.

12. Cytryn-Silverman, K. “Tankiz’s khan li’l-sabil in Jaljuliya” in A. Levanoni (Haifa) and R. Amitai (eds.), The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria: Studies in the History of a Late Medieval Middle Eastern State. (submitted in 2007, 24 pages, Word, double space).

13. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Islamic-Period Pottery," in D. Ben-Ami (ed.), Excavations in the Tyropoeon Valley (Giv‘ati Parking Lot), Final Report I: Area M1 (2007). (IAA Reports 52) Jerusalem, 2013, pp. 167–204.

14. Talmon-Heller, D. (PI), Cytryn-Silverman, K. (PI) and Tabbaa, Y. (PI) "Introduction: Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies," in D. Talmon-Heller and K. Cytryn-Silverman (eds.), Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies, Leiden, 2014, pp. 1–13.

15. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Tiberias and Khirbat al-Minya: two long-lived Umayyad sites on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee," in H.P. Kühnen (ed.), Der Umayyadenpalast am See Genezareth, Orient Archäologie Series 36, Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Berlin, 2016, pp. 111–129.

16. K. Cytryn-Silverman (PI) and A. Mashiach ((PI), "The Ottoman Sabīls of Jerusalem: Restoration and Revival", in G.D. Stiebel, J. Uziel, K. Cytryn–Silverman, A. Re'em and Y. Gadot (eds.), New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region 10, Jerusalem 2016, pp. 169–196 (Hebrew).

17. Kribus B.(PI) and Cytryn-Silverman, K. (PI) "The Ceramic Evidence: The Islamic Period, " in I. Bordowicz (ed.), Horvat Yattir: The 1995 – 1999 Seasons. Forthcoming (submitted and accepted in 2013, 23 pages, Word, double space).

18. Cytryn-Silverman, K. " Tiberias’ Houses of Prayer in Context," in J. Patrich, L. Di Segni, O. Peleg-Barkat and E. Ben Yosef (eds.), Arise, Walk through the Land, Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Land of Israel in Memory of Yizjar Hirschfeld on the Tenth Anniversary of his Demise, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, pp. 235-248.

19. Cytryn-Silverman, K., “Recent Advances in Islamic Archaeology – An Introduction,” in K. Cytryn-Silverman, K. Damgaard and D. Whitcomb (eds.), Recent Advances in Islamic Archaeology, Chicago, forthcoming in 2019.

 

ARTICLES:

20. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Settlement in Northern Sinai during the Islamic Period", in J.-M. Mouton (ed.), Le Sinaï – de la conquête arabe à nos jours, IFAO, Cahier des Annales Islamologiques 21, 2001, pp. 3-36.

21. Rosen-Ayalon, M. (PI), Cytryn-Silverman, K. (PI) and Solar, G. (PI) "Khirbet al-Minya," Notes and News, IEJ 55, 2005, pp. 216-219.

22. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Road Inns (Kh«ns) in Eretz-Israel during the Mamluk Period," Qadmoniot 39, no. 132, 2006, pp. 66-77 (in Hebrew).

23. Cytryn-Silverman, K. “The Fifth Mīl from Jerusalem: another Umayyad milestone from southern Bilād al-Shām,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70, 2007, pp. 603-610.

24. Cytryn-Silverman, K. Review article – P. Willey's Eagle’s Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria (I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, 2005), Journal of Studies in Arabic and Islam, 33, 2007, pp. 503-512.

25. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Minaret of the White Mosque in Ramla," Qadmoniot 135, 2008, pp. 56-64 (in Hebrew).

26. Gadot, Y. (PI), Cytryn-Silverman, K. (PI) and Deadlee, T. (PI) "Kh«n Hilu – Lod (2007)", Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot 120 (internet edition, 2008). http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail.asp?id=874&mag_id=114 (in Hebrew), http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.asp?id=874&mag_id=114 (in English).

27. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Three Mamluk Minarets in Ramla," Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 35, 2008, pp. 379-432. (published in 2009)

28. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Khān al-Ẓāhir – bi ẓāhir al-Quds!," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 19/2, 2009, pp. 149-171.

29. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Umayyad Mosque of Tiberias," Muqarnas 26, 2009, pp. 37-61.

30. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "City Centre of Early Islamic Tiberias (Tabariyya)," Fondation Max Van Berchem Bulletin, no. 23, 2009, pp. 5-7.

31. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Mamluk Minarets of Ramla, " Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem 21, 2010 (short version of no. 14 above). Online issue http://bcrfj.revues.org/index6409.html, uploaded on March 1st, 2011.

32. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Excavations at Tiberias (Spring and Autumn 2009): Remains of a District Capital," Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (April 12th–16th, 2010), vol. 2, Wiesbaden, 2012, pp. 599–617.

33. Cytryn-Silverman, K. (PI) and Blakely, J.A. (PI) "From Gaza to Hebron in the Mamluk period: a stopover at Kh. al-Sukkariya," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 369, 2013, pp. 201–229.

34. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Review article – P.M.M. Daviau’s (ed.), Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 4, The Early Islamic House. Brill Series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 11.4," Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2013, pp. 104–112.

35. Cytryn-Silverman, K. (PI) and Benente, F. (collaborator), “Rural Khans in Greater Syria between the 13th–15th centuries,” Archeologia Viva, forthcoming in 2015. (submitted in 2014, 10 pages, Word, double space).

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

36. Avni G. and Cytryn-Silverman, K. (eds.), Qadmoniot 135, 2008, dedicated to discoveries and studies on Ramla (in Hebrew, 80 pages).

37. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Islamic Archaeology in Jordan," entry in The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations of the Holy Land, English Supplementary volume (vol. 5), 2008, pp. 1871-1882.

38. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Islamic and Crusader Archaeology," entry in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire Smith, Springer, 2014, pp. 4047-4055.

39. Cytryn-Silverman, K. “Tiberias, from its foundation to the early Islamic period,” entry in Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods Volume 2: The Archaeological Record from Galilean Cities, Towns, and Villages, edited by David A. Fiensy and James Riley Strange, Minneapolis, 2015, pp.186-210.

40. Cytryn-Silverman, K. “Road Inns of the Mamluk Period,” in Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology, edited by Bethany Joelle Walker, Oxford University Press: Oxford. Forthcoming (25 pages, Word, double space).

41. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "The Mamluk Postal Road," text for stamp on Philately Day (984, 12/2015), December 8th, 2014. Israel Philatelic Service, Tel Aviv.

42. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Site 110: The Monumental Mosque," in Y. Stepansky, The Archaeological Survey of Israel, Map 36 (Tiberias), Israel Antiquities Authority Survey site (http://www.antiquities.org.il/survey/new/default_en.aspx).

43. Cytryn-Silverman, K. "Site 105: Building 138," in Y. Stepansky, The Archaeological Survey of Israel, Map 36 (Tiberias), Israel Antiquities Authority Survey site (http://www.antiquities.org.il/survey/new/default_en.aspx).

 

CONFERENCES:

Before appointment

1. "The Ceramic Finds from the 1996 Excavations North of the White Mosque in Ramla." Conference by the Department of Excavations and Surveys: Ramla: The Development of a Town from the Early Islamic to Ottoman Period. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, 25th March, 1999.

2. "The Roads in Palestine during the Early Islamic Period: The Umayyad “Enterprise." Conference by the Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies: The Making of the Muslim Society in Eretz-Israel, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, December 1st, 2005.

3. "Khāns and Barīd Stations in Palestine during the Mamluk Period." Conference in Honour of Prof. Myriam Rosen-Ayalon on the occasion of her retirement. Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, March 30th, 2006.

4. "Tankiz’s Khān li’ l-sabīl in Jaljūliya," Haifa University, April 4th, 2006. International Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation: The Mamluk Sultanate: Political, Military, Social and Cultural Aspects, Haifa and Jerusalem, April 3rd- 6th April 2006.

5. "Tiberias and Surroundings during the Umayyad Period," Conference Series by the Israel Antiquities Authority: Center and Periphery in the light of the Archaeological Research, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, May 18th, 2006.

6. "The Minaret of the White Mosque of Ramla Reassessed." Conference by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies: Recent Studies on Archaeology and Art of the Islamic World. Ben-Gurion University, May 6th, 2007.

7. Co-organizer of lecture series Research Forum for Interdisciplinary Debate – Society, Landscape and Material Culture – The Land of Israel from the close of the Classical period up to the beginning of the Modern Era, on behalf of The Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies and the Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, 2006-2007.

8. Co-organizer of Day-Conference Earthquakes in the Land of Israel between 700-1800: Archaeological, Historical and Geological Approaches, on behalf of The Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies and the Israel Antiquities Authority, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, May 13th, 2007.

9. "Evidence for Seismic Movements at the site of Khirbat al-Minya," Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem, May 13th, 2007 (see item no. 7).

10. "The Palace of the Ruler of Damascus on the shores of the Sea of Galilee." Day Conference: From Tiberias to Sussita: News in the Archaeological Research. Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, June 7th, 2007.

11. "Back to The Umayyad Palace by the Sea of Galilee – the Renewed Excavations at Ḥorvat Minnim (Khirbat al-Minya)," Avi Chai House, Jerusalem, Thirty Fourth Archaeological Conference in Israel, April 16th, 2008.

12. "The Mamluk Minarets of Ramla", Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem, Third Doctoral Research Seminar of the French Research Center in Jerusalem: Migration and Inter-Cultural Relations in the Southern Levant and the Israel-Palestinian Space, April, 28th-29th, 2008.

13. "On three khāns in the Golan Heights: Some notes on the background for the erection of road-inns during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods," On Crossroads conference, Golan Archaeological Museum, Qatzrin, December 11th, 2008.

14. “From Gaza to Hebron in the Mamluk period: a stopover at Kh. al-Sukkariya,” presented in absence, ASOR Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 21st, 2009.

15. “The Great Mosque of Tiberias,” The 34th National Conference of The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel, Jerusalem, Rabin Building, Mt. Scopus, May 20th, 2009.

16. "The Planning of the Congregational Mosque of Tiberias and its Contribution to the study of Early Islamic Mosques in Bilād al-Shām," Eleventh International Conference From Jāhiliyya to Islam, Jerusalem, July 5th – 10th, 2009.

17. Co-organizer (with D. Talmon-Heller of Ben-Gurion University), Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies. 14th Annual Workshop of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev, Beer-Shieva, June 30th – July 2nd 2009.

 

After appointment

18. “Excavations at Tiberias: Remains of a District Capital”, 7ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East), London, April 12th-16th 2010.

19. Co-organizer (with E. Stern and G. Avni of the Israel Antiquities Authority), A workshop on the Pottery from Early Islamic, Crusader and Late Islamic Periods. Under the joint auspices of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Antiquities Authority. The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, The Collections Room, Thursday, June 17th, 2010.

20. “Arqueologia e Arqueólogos em Israel: Da Herança do Mandato Britânico à Lei de Antiguidades de 1989” (Archaeology and Archaeologists in Israel: from the British Mandate Heritage to the Law of Antiquities of 1989), Seminário de Arqueologia Empresarial e sua interface com o Direito Ambiental, Instituto Dannemann Siemsen, Rio de Janeiro, July 26th, 2010.

21. “The New Tiberias Excavation Project,” ASOR Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 17th, 2010.

22. Co-organizer of Conference Series Archaeology and History: “Can Two Walk Together?” Israel Antiquities Authority and The Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Rabin Building, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, December 23rd, 2010, March 3rd and May 19th, 2011.

23. “Islamic Tiberias- The Finds of the 2010 Excavations at the Friday Mosque,” Day-Conference Eretz-Israel in the Middle Ages (634-1517): Demographic, Social and Cultural Trends, Yad Ben-Zvi, January 19th, 2011. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14PlkfYbgM

24. “The White Mosque of Ramla during the Mamluk Period,” Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and Cultural Aspects, An International Conference, University of Haifa, April 11th-13th, 2011.

25. “Khirbat al-Minya and Tiberias in the Early Islamic periods,” international workshop: Khirbet al Minya und die Archäologie der frühislamischen Zeit, Museum für Islamische Kunst and Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, September 8th – 9th,  2011.

26. “A Temple, a church and a mosque: Tiberias’ religious centre from Roman through Islamic times,” Khalili Research Centre, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, Colloquium From Polis to Madina: New Research into Byzantine, and Umayyad Urbanism in the Near East, Trinity College, Oxford, February 4th, 2012.

27. “Pragmatic Building Techniques in the Early Islamic Period as evinced from the Tiberias excavations,” Masons at Works: Architecture and Construction in the Pre-Modern World, Center for Ancient Studies Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 30th – April 1st, 2012.

28. “The First Mosque of Tiberias: A Reflection of What Arculfus Saw in Jerusalem?,” Palestine/Eretz-Israel from the Arab Conquest until the end of the Mamluk Period (634-1517): Demographic, social, religious and cultural trends, Meetings on behalf of ISF Centre of Excellence The Formation of Muslim Society in Palestine (ca. 600-1500 CE), Yad Izhak Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 19th, 2012.) Hebrew(

29. Co-organizer (with Dr. Kristoffer Damgaard, University of Copenhagen), two-day seminar “Recent Advances in Islamic Archaeology: A seminar on the archaeology of Levantine society in the Islamic periods,” Under the auspices of W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research , at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem (EBAF), Jerusalem, February 7th–8th, 2013.

30. “The Church and the Mosque: Tiberias’ religious hub, between the Byzantine and the early Islamic Period.” The Sixth Conference of the Israel Association for Byzantine Studies, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, January 16th, 2014.

31. “Tiberias’ congregational mosque: some conclusions,” 9ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East), University of Basel, Switzerland, June 9th–13th, 2014.

32. Co-organizer (with Prof. Dieter Vieweger, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology), “Quo Vadis“Biblical Archaeology”? Past, Present and Future of Archaeology in the Southern Levant,” Event in the framework of festivities on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of German-Israeli diplomatic relations, Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem, June 17th–18th, 2015.

33. "The congregational mosque of Tiberias in context," Encompassing the Sacred in Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Bamberg, Germany, July 2nd– 4th, 2015.

34. "Tiberias Apogee and Decline in the 10th-11th centuries," ASOR Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 18th-21st, 2015.

35. "The Road-Inns of the Early Islamic period in Bilād al-Shām: a bit more on the little known," The Geography and Infrastructure of Trade in early Islam," SOAS University of London, December 3rd–5th, 2015.

36. “Unique Mamlūk Wall Paintings from Jerusalem: An archaeological and artistic appraisal,” Day Conference in Honor of Prof. Rachel Milstein in the Occasion of her retirement. Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. The Hebrew University, June 1st, 2016.

37. Co-organizer, New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region The Tenth Annual Conference, Yad Izhak Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, October 26th–27th, 2016.

38. "Sulayman's Sabīls: Restoration and Revival," with Avi Mashiach, New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region The Tenth Annual Conference, Yad Izhak Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, October 26th–27th, 2016.

39. “Da Capitulação de Bayt al-Maqdis em 638 às renovações de Sulayman: Aspectos Biblicos na Arqueologia do Periodo Islâmico de Jerusalém,” Primeiro Congresso Internacional de Arqueologia Bíblica no Brasil, Universidade Adventista de São Paulo (UNASP), Engenheiro Coelho Campus, October 14th, 2017.

40. “Novidades sobre a Antiguidade: trabalhos recentes do Instituto de Arqueologia da Universidade Hebraica de Jerusalém,” Primeiro Congresso Internacional de Arqueologia Bíblica no Brasil, Universidade Adventista de São Paulo (UNASP), Engenheiro Coelho Campus, October 14th, 2017.

41. Co-organizer, New Studies in the Archaeology of Jerusalem and Its Region The Eleventh Annual Conference, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, October 18th–19th, 2017.

42. “Tiberias, Ramla and Jerusalem: The archaeological evidence,” International Workshop – The Societal Consequences of Climatic Changes The Medieval Climate Anomaly, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mandel Building, December 3rd–7th, 2017.

43. “A bit more on milestones and on the road system during the Umayyad period,” Evening in honor of Prof. Moshe Sharon, Yad Izhak Ben Zvi and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 11th, 2018.

44. “The First Mosque of Tiberias: Religious Architecture After the Conquest,” 11 ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East), Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany, April 2nd–7th, 2018.

45. “The dome where Adam, Moses, Solomon and Jesus meet: the shape of the legitimate,” Jerusalem and other holy places as foci of multireligious and ideological confrontation, Jerusalem, The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, May 14th–17th, 2018.

46. Co-organizer, The 42nd Annual Meeting of the The Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel, Gilman Bldg., Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, June 7th, 2018.

47. “Formation and Evolution of Mosque Architecture in Palestine during the first centuries of Islam,”Temples, Synagogues, Churches and Mosques: Sacred Architecture in Palestine from the Brzone Age to Medieval Times, Mainz, Erbacher Hof, November 30th – December 2nd, 2018.

 

Invited Lectures

  • "Thoroughfares during the Mamluk Period: Caravanserais, Barid Relays, Commerce," Lecture Series, Dr. Julian Raby: Mamluk Material Culture. Oriental Institute, Oxford University, February 28th, 2000.
  • "Khān al-Ẓāhir – bi ẓāhir al-Quds!," Methodological Seminar, Prof. Reuven Amitai. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2004. (Hebrew)
  • "Market or Friday Mosque: The Pillared Building at the centre of Classical Tiberias," Lecture series: Young Scholars Seminar. The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2nd, 2008.
  • "Roads and Road-Inns in Palestine during the Mamluk Period," The Madison Biblical Archaeology Society. DeRicci Hall, Edgewood College, Madison, October 7th, 2008.
  • "Khirbat al-Minya: an Umayyad Qaşr on the Sea of Galilee," Lecture series: Islamic Art and Artifact Workshop. Pick Hall, University of Chicago, October 13th, 2008.
  • "Multicultural Society in Islamic Tiberias: The Archaeological Evidence," Lecture presented with the support of the Aronberg Lectureship, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium, and the Islamic At and Artifact Workshop. Cochrane-Woods Art Center, University of Chicago, October 21st, 2008.
  • "From Market to Mosque: Reassessing Prior Excavations in Tiberias," Lecture series: The Interdisciplinary Graduate Group in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, October 24th, 2008.
  • "Excavating the Islamic Past in Modern Israel: New Approaches," Trahern Building, Austin Peay State University, October 27th, 2008.
  • "Traveling in Search of God, Knowledge and Mammon: Some Stopovers," Lecture series: The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop. Oriental Institute, LaSalle Room, The University of Chicago, October 30th, 2008.
  • "Three Mamluk Minarets in Ramla, Palestine," Lecture presented at DePaul History and Anthropology Depts., and DePaul Hillel, De Paul University Museum, Chicago, November 5th, 2008.
  • "On the Islamization of a Classical Town, and the Classicizing of Islamic Models: Tiberias as a Case-study," Institute of Advanced Studies, Seminar series: The Concept of Urban Change – a research group at the IAS, September 2008 – August 2009, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 21st, 2009.
  • “The New Tiberias Excavation Project,” Austin Peay State University, November 15th, 2010.
  • “New Excavations at Tiberias,” W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, October 6th, 2011.
  • “Five Seasons of Excavations at Tiberias,” Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago, October 20th, 2011.
  • “News from Tiberias Excavations,” Tel Aviv University, Departmental Seminar, January 30th, 2012. (Hebrew)
  • “The first congregational mosque of Tiberias: some preliminary conclusions,” Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, May 12th, 2013.
  • “Tiberias, from al-Balādhurī to Nāsir-i Khusraw:  historical and archaeological evidence,” Group for the Study of Late Antiquity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 9th, 2014. (Hebrew)
  • “Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee - from Herod Antipas to al-Mustansir billah,” Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität,  Munich, June 16th, 2014.
  • “‘Between the Mountain and the Sea’ – Tiberias from the 1st through the 13th centuries, evidence from the New Tiberias Excavation Project”. Bayerisches Orient Kolloquium, Universität Bamberg, June 18th, 2014.
  • "Tiberias from Roman to Crusader times: some highlights from the New Tiberias Excavation Project," Crusader Art and Archaeology: a Re-Evaluation International Getty research group, November 5th, 2015.
  • "Caught Between Paradigms – Late Antique Tiberias and its Islamization: An Archaeological Approach," Columbia University, New York, November 23rd, 2015.
  • "Between facts on the ground and in literary sources and artistic freedom: the making of the Mamluk Road stamp," A Big Story in a Small Size: The Mamluk Postal Road Stamp, Evening conference, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem, December 20th, 2015. (Hebrew)
  • "Arqueologia Islâmica em Israel – um patrimônio histórico visto por um outro ângulo," Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, February 15th, 2017.
  • Escavando o Passado Islâmico na costa do Mar da Galiléia – Tiberíades e o Palácio Omíada de Minya, O Museu da Humanidade/IPHARJ, Rio de Janeiro, February 18th, 2017.
  • Arqueologia Islâmica em Israel: da fundação do país até hoje, Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, October 9th, 2017.
  • Tiberias during the seventh and eighth centuries: between Christianity and Islam, IAA Seminar Series, Caesarea, March 13th, 2018. (Hebrew)
  • "From Ground to Showcase: jewelry and jewelry representation in early Islam," Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, October 28th, 2018. (Hebrew)
  • “A New Glimpse at the Umayyad Palace of Khirbat al-Minya: from the “dolce vita” to sugar production,” The Institute of Archaeology Departmental Seminar Series, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 21st, 2018. (Hebrew).