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Samuel Thrope

Samuel Thrope

Samuel Thrope is the Content Manager for the Maktoub digitization project at the National Library of Israel. His work has been published in The Nation, Haaretz, Aeon, The Times of Israel, and elsewhere, and his is the former Deputy Managing Editor for the Jerusalem Post. He is the translator, with Domenico Agostini, of the Zoroastrian creation myth the Bundahisn, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

The Hejaz Railway: The Train That Connected an Empire

These rare photos offer a glimpse of a monumental Ottoman project, designed to transport “hajj” pilgrims and unite a vast Islamic realm

Samuel Thrope | 20.07.20

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