Browsing Near and Middle Eastern Studies by Subject "Middle Eastern studies"
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Assembling ‘Cosmopolitan’ Pera: An Infrastructural History of Late Ottoman Istanbul
In the nineteenth century, the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, became an internationally recognized center of commerce, finance, culture, art, and recreation, in the context of the ... -
The Bittersweet Taste of the Past: Reading Food in Armenian Literature in Turkish
This dissertation investigates Armenian literature in Turkish through the two authors Takuhi Tovmasyan and Migirdic Margosyan by analyzing their literary works with an emphasis on food. By putting the traumatic experiences ... -
The Bittersweet Taste of the Past: Reading Food in Armenian Literature in Turkish
This dissertation investigates Armenian literature in Turkish through the two authors Takuhi Tovmasyan and Migirdic Margosyan by analyzing their literary works with an emphasis on food. By putting the traumatic experiences ... -
Constructions of Jewish Modernity and Marginality in Izmir, 1860-1907
Izmir, an Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean port city, underwent significant changes during the wide-ranging Ottoman reform movement, Tanzimat (1839-1876). By the end of the nineteenth century, the emerging picture was a rapid ... -
Domestic Conquest: Land Reform and Bounded Rationality in the Middle East
This dissertation examines the rise and fall of projects for land reform - the redistribution of agricultural land from large landowners to those owning little or none - in the Middle East in the mid 20th century, focusing ... -
From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Palestinian Youth as New Practitioners of Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan
Displaced in both 1948 and 1967, Palestinian refugees in the Middle East now number over 5 million and have lived in exile for decades with no sign of a permanent solution. Despite the duration of their displacement, ... -
Marriage Across the ‘Color’ Spectrum: Making Commitment Palatable in Iran
In the twenty-first century, marriage practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran have evolved rapidly as unfulfilled expectations of intimacy in marriages have caused an increase in divorce rates, and the tendency to postpone ... -
Negotiating Illegality: Bypassed Minorities’ Access to Infrastructure in Middle Eastern Democracies
What happens when democratic governments distribute infrastructure systems perceived as prerequisites for economic prosperity and modernization, such as systems providing water and electricity, to disadvantage their minority ... -
Ottoman Reflections on Gender, Class and Race in Victorian England: Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Finten
Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan (1852–1937), who spent more than twenty years of his life in London and India, was the first Ottoman author who made India and the British Empire a frequently visited topic in his literary works. This ... -
Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court
"Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court" argues that in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Ottoman scholars and statesmen produced a new literary language in order to express ... -
The Legibility of Power and Culture in Ba‘thist Iraq from 1968-1991
From 1968 until 1991, the state led by the Iraqi Ba‘th Party fought a war against groups in Iraq that did not comply with state dictates. Situated in the Third World of postcolonial lineage, Iraq was in a milieu shaped by ... -
‘Without a Purpose, Misfortune Will Befall Our Land:’ Discourses of Nation in Late Ottoman Kurdistan
In the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, Kurdish and Assyrian nationalists sought to improve their communities’ situations. This dissertation demonstrates the historical factors that shaped the discourses of these nascent ...