Contributors
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
is Associate Professor of history at the University of Oslo. She has previously taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago. Her research on the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, with a specific focus on Lebanon and Palestine, has appeared in various journals including History Compass, Contemporary Levant, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. She is also the author of A Taste for Home: the Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford, 2017).
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University Newark where she teaches Middle East and Islamic Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the history of the Ottoman empire and Southeastern Europe with a focus on migrations, Muslim modernities, empires and their legacies. Her forthcoming book titled, Afterlife of Empire, explores Ottoman continuities in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina and the imperial imprint on modern institutions, citizenship, and allegiance.
Amit Bein
is Professor of Modern Middle East History at Clemson University. His research focuses on political, diplomatic, and social changes in Turkey and the Middle East during the closing years of the Ottoman empire and the early decades of the post-Ottoman Middle East. His publications include Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic: Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition (Stanford, 2011), and Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period (Cambridge, 2017).
Ebru Boyar
is Professor in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she teaches Ottoman, Turkish and modern Middle Eastern history. She is also Academic Advisor at the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her current research interests include informal diplomacy in the late Ottoman empire and early Turkish republic and public health in the same period. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks, and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London, 2007), A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010), co-authored with Kate Fleet, Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden, 2016), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden, 2018), Entertainment Among the Ottomans (Leiden, 2019) and Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia (Leiden, 2021), co-edited with Kate Fleet.
Kate Fleet
is the Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her current research interests include various aspects of Ottoman commercial history and relations between the early Turkish republic and the Great Powers. Her books include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: the Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Cambridge, 1999), A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010), together with Ebru Boyar, and Ottoman Economic Practices in Periods of Transformation: the Cases of Crete and Bulgaria (Ankara, 2014), together with Svetla Ianeva. She has recently edited four volumes together with Ebru Boyar: Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden, 2016), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden, 2018), Entertainment Among the Ottomans (Leiden, 2019) and Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia (Leiden, 2021).
Onur İşçi
is Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Since 2018, he has also served as Director of the Bilkent Center for Russian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in History with distinction. His teaching and research interests include transnational history of the twentieth century and Russo-Turkish relations from the late-imperial period. He has published two books: Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: Diplomacy, Discord and International Relations (London, 2019) and Harp Yahut İhtilal: Rusya İmparatorluğu’nun Çöküşü, 1881–1917 (Istanbul, 2019). His articles have appeared in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Contemporary History, Russian History, Kritika and Diplomatic History.
Liat Kozma
is a Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt (Syracuse, 2011) and Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East (Albany, 2017). She heads an ERC-funded project titled “A Regional History of Medicine in the Middle East, 1830–1960”, and is the Harry Friedenwald Chair in History of Medicine at the Hebrew University.
Brian L. McLaren
is a Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he teaches history and theory, research methods, and design. His recent publications include Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy (Leiden, 2021). He is currently working on a book-length research project that examines the conflicted nature of mobility in Italian Africa, which greatly expands upon his earlier research on architecture and tourism in Libya.
Nikola Minov
is Associate Professor of history at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, where he teaches modern European history. His research interests include social and cultural history of Ottoman Macedonia and Christian minorities in the Balkans, with a particular focus on the Aromanians in Ottoman Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly and Albania. He has published many articles, book chapters and one book entitled
Eli Osheroff
is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University. His work focuses on Arab political and intellectual history, especially in the context of the Zionist-Arab encounter. The chapter in this volume is based on his research for his doctoral dissertation, which dealt with Arab political imagination and the future of Jews in Palestine before 1948.
Ramazan Hakkı Öztan
is Assistant Professor of History at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He completed his Ph.D. in May 2016 in the History Department at the University of Utah and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, where he worked in an ERC project, with Jordi Tejel, on the borders of the interwar Middle East. He has published articles in Past and Present, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Contemporary History and Journal of Migration History. He has also co-edited with Alp Yenen, Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires (Edinburgh, 2021) and with Jordi Tejel, Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918–1946 (Edinburgh, 2022).
Michael Provence
is Professor in the Department of History, University of California, San Diego. He earned a Ph.D. in Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Chicago. Since the 1990s he has lived and studied in Syria, Lebanon, Germany and France. He is the author of the books, The Last Ottoman Generation (Cambridge, 2017) and The Great Syrian Revolt (Austin, 2005) both translated and widely reviewed in Arabic and Turkish, and many articles on the late Ottoman and colonial Middle East of the early twentieth century.
Jordi Tejel
is a Research Professor in contemporary history at the University of Neuchâtel. Between 2017–2022, he led a European Research Council (ERC) research project on the borderlands of the interwar Middle East. He has authored Syria’s Kurds: History, Politics and Society (London, 2009), La question kurde: Passé et present (Paris, 2014) and co-edited with Peter Sluglett, Hamit Bozarslan and Riccardo Bocco, Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (Hackensack N.J., 2012), and with Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918–1946 (Edinburgh, 2022). He has also published in journals such as Journal of Borderlands Studies, Iranian Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Studies, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Journal of Migration History and Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Peter Wien
is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Maryland in College Park. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, and Master degrees from Oxford and Heidelberg. He taught at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco and was a fellow at the ZMO (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin). His publications include Arab Nationalism: the Politics of History and Culture in the Modern Middle East (London, 2017) and Iraqi Arab Nationalism: Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932–1941 (London, 2006).