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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 political thought. Poetic and literary composition was an extension of contemporary politics, a medium ...
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 regional tensions and the larger Cold War. This work traces a battle of ideas waged by the Iraqi Ba‘th ...
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 empire’s rapid integration into world capitalism. The district’s built environment changed radically, ...
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, Palestinian refugees remain marginal to prevailing literature on long-term displacement. Deemed exceptional ...
‘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 nationalist movements, situating them as localized developments rather than the importation of modular ...