Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek studies the links between ancient cultural encounters and socio-cultural transformations. Her research has focused on relations between Egypt and Western Asia during the Third and Second Millennia BCE. She is particularly interested in the processes related to the movement of concepts, objects, and people across geographic, social, and cultural borders, and how these lead to change. Her approach integrates archaeological, textual, and artistic data with current theoretical understandings on social identities, cultural encounters, and socio-cultural transformations. Anna has worked on several archaeological field projects. She currently co-directs the Khentika Project at Saqqara and is a member of the Beni Hassan Project.

Anna's publications include Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period; The Enigma of the Hyksos, Vol II: Transforming Egypt into the New Kingdom; and Egypt and the Levant: Networks and Negotiations in the Bronze Age. Her current research examines how communities adapted to shifting long-distance connectivities across Egypt and Western Asia from the Third to Second Millennium BCE. It seeks to elucidate the links between connectivity, environmental, and climatic change, as well as regional and local transformations.

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