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Browsing Near and Middle Eastern Studies by Subject "Near Eastern studies"
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At the Confluence: Participatory Development, State-Society Relations, and Transboundary Water Management in the Kura River Basin
The water sector is part of a larger impetus in environmental policy towards public participation, particularly as water management practices have expanded from purely technocratic approaches to include diverse stakeholders ... -
Blue Dreams, Black Disillusions: Literary Market and Modern Authorship in the Late Ottoman Empire
Why would a successful young novelist write the story of a failed poet told from the point of view of a sympathetic narrator, and why would this failed protagonist then become a role model for the next generation of ... -
Lawyers on the Barricades: The Politics of Exceptional Law in Turkey, 1930-1980
Why would a country's top law professors support a military coup d'état and political show trials? Conversely, how could lawyers succeed in bringing military trials of civilians to a halt, rendering them all but useless ... -
Precarious Identity, Tenacious Stereotype: The Making of Romani Alterity in Late- and Post-Ottoman Turkey
This dissertation is a study of the generative power of categories and the state practices based upon them. The case of the Roma in the late Ottoman and early Republican contexts illustrates the productive role of definition ... -
(Re)bordering Territory and Citizenship on the Greek-Turkish Borderland
For almost a century, the Greek-Turkish antagonism has been central to the construction of notions of national citizenship and national territory in their official historiographies, state policies and public view. In the ... -
Shariʿa in the Secular State: Evolving Perceptions of Law and Religion in Turkey
Many polls, including my own, indicate that a notable percentage of Turks want "Shariʿa"--a term of art, the meaning of which I attempt to unpack and clarify in this study--to be enforced by the state. However, my evidence ... -
‘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 ... -
Writing a Grammatical Commentary on Hafiz of Shiraz: A Sixteenth-century Ottoman Scholar on the Divan of Hafiz
(2013-04-17)This dissertation explores the study and interpretation of the Divan (poetry collection) of Hafiz of Shiraz (d. ca. 1389), the most celebrated lyric poet of classical Persian, in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire and ...