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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Constructing the Past in a Fractured Present: A History of Late Ottoman Historical Writing, 1839-1922
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Erdem Sönmez Assistant Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara
Erdem Sönmez is a historian of the modern Middle East with a particular research focus on the late Ottoman Empire and republican Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in History from Bilkent...
Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran
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Afsaneh Najmabadi Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers...