To Steward Unruly Imperial Pasts
On Ambivalent Legacies: Political Cultures of Memory and Amnesia in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Lands, special issue of History & Anthropology, Volume 30, No. 4, October 2019. By Jeremy F....
Tagged: Ottoman Empire
Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire
This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire”, which...
Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War
Personal narratives have recently begun to attract great interest among military and social historians of the Middle East in their work on the wars from 1912 until 1918. We talked with one of the conveners, Richard Wittmann, about the upcoming conference “Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War”.
Book Review: Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
By Karen Vallgårda Nazan Maksudyan, Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2019. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. 211 pages. ISBN: 9780815636458...
5in10 Interview with Nir Shafir
Nir Shafir is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire. His research explores how shifts in material culture and religious practice shaped the intellectual and scientific life of the...
Book Review: Hala Auji, Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut
By Fabian Steininger, Freie Universität Berlin Auji, Hala. Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 7. Leiden and...
A Taste For Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut
By Toufoul Abou-Hodeib The word “home” usually has parochial and quotidian connotations. In postcolonial scholarship, 19th– and 20th-century domesticity is primarily understood as a place where difference can be located...
Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt Since the Sixteenth Century
By Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim This monograph takes as its central theme the following paradox: while Muslim jurists canonized most of the laws of child custody in the eighth-eleventh centuries, changes...
Imperial Cities: The Tsarist Empire, the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire in Comparison
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “Imperial Cities: The Tsarist Empire, the Habsburg...
Writing the History of the Armenian Genocide — EUME Berliner Seminar
The 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is commemorated on April 24, 2015. On this occasion the Forum‘s program Europe in The Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) invites...
