TODAY 📢📢 A lecture on Colonial-Industrial Heritage in Jordan: The Case of As-Safawi H5 Pumping Station by Shatha Mubaideen🤓 📅 17 July ⏲️ 6:00 PM Amman time 📌 CBRL Amman Institute, 6 Al-Baouneyah Street, Jabal Al-Lweibdeh ✍️Register to attend Online shorturl.at/L3vma

🚨📢 JOB ALERT: Ankara Manager The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) is searching for a candidate to fill the permanent, full-time position of Ankara Manager at the Research Centre in Ankara. 📍 Ankara, Türkiye ⏰ 12th August 2024 ℹ️ biaa.ac.uk/grants/biaa-an…

📍"Rethinking post-Ottoman space through the ordinary: garages, hotels and cafés between Syria and Iraq, 1920s–1930s" - @CesarJaquier | Contemporary Levant Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2024. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🔍Exciting find on last week's Badia Lecture Series presented by our colleague, Shatha | شذى! CBRL delves into colonial archaeology at the As-Safawi, H5 pumping station. 🤓Read more in @Jordantimes on shar.es/agu6G5 #Archaeology #Jordan #CBRL

Are you interested in the social and administrative history of Ottoman Syria… and you speak Arabic? Check out this upcoming talk by the BL-Qatar Foundation Project’s Dr Ula Zeir on 6 August! iis.ac.uk/events/agricul…

For those aiming to escape The Hellsite, you can now find Contemporary Levant over on BSky, at bsky.app/profile/contem…. Come and join us!

New out and #openaccess in Contemporary Levant: "‘So that we can safeguard your lives’: the Jews of Aleppo between colonialism, nationalism, and Zionism, 1918–1946" by Joel Veldkamp: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My first peer-reviewed article is out today!

New in Contemporary Levant: "Nobody is leaving! Ottoman officials, their families and the struggle over Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Yemen after the Mudros Armistice, 1918–1924" by Thomas Kuehn: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New and #openaccess in Contemporary Levant: "Precarious privileges: glimpses into the post-Ottoman transition through the papers of a Salonican family" by Funda Soysal and Alp Yenen: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My article on the making of post-Ottoman order in Kilis just got published in a special issue Contemporary Levant edited by dear Aline Schlaepfer and Jordi Tejel. For those interested, here is the link to the full text: doi.org/10.1080/205818…

Thanks to my cousin Funda Soysal (Funda Soysal), we have published this co-authored article on our family history: "Precarious Privileges: Glimpses into the Post-Ottoman Transition through the Papers of a Salonican Family" Contemporary Levant #openaccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New online and #openaccess on Contemporary Levant: "Navigating futures past: colonialism, nationalism, and the making of post-Ottoman order in Kilis, 1919–1926" by Ramazan Hakkı Öztan: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… cc CBRL

Our special issue (with @jorditejel) on “Ordinary Ottomans. Post-World War I settlements and experiences of the end of Empire” is finally out, with Contemporary Levant ! tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20 Summaries of our contributions 👇 1/10

New ahead-of-print on Contemporary Levant: Nora Parr reviews Being There Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World by Maurice Ebileeni, published by Syracuse U Press: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…