Febe Armanios is Professor of History at Middlebury College. She is an expert in food history and in the history and religious practices of Christians in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, especially from the Ottoman to the modern periods. She's the author of Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2011) and co-author, with Bogac Ergene, of Halal Food: A History (Oxford University Press, 2018). She's currently completing a book on the history of Christian television in the Middle East and has also begun research on a new project that examines comparative food and culinary traditions of Christians in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on Copts, Greeks, Armenians, and Maronites, among others.