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Nora Lafi <lafinora@rz.hu-berlin.de> Zentrum Moderner Orient Research Key Words: Urban History Ottoman Empire Local powers in North Africa, Middle East and the Mediterranean Municipalities and Municipal history Urban élites Mediterranean Urban History Ottoman reforms Ottoman History Guilds in the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Urban Microcosms H-Mediterranean Editor |
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| Address: | Zentrum Moderner Orient Kirchweg 33 Berlin, 14129 Germany |
| Primary Phone: | +49 30 803 07 239 |
| Fax Number: | +49 30 803 07 210 |
| Web Page: | http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Lafi/index.htm |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Urban List Editor for H-Mediterranean Review Editor for H-Mediterranean Reviewer for H-Soz-u-Kult |
| Reviews: | A. Roussillon: Identité et modernité. Les voyageurs égyptiens au Japon New Trends in Egyptian Historiography of the Ottoman Period. A German-Egyptian Encounter O. Weintritt: Arabische Geschichtsschreibung R. Abdellatif u.a. (Hrsg.): Construire la Méditerranée Imperial norms and local realities |
| Interests: | Urban History / Studies |
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Bio: Phd (1999) Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France Master in Arabic Language and Literature (Aix-en-Provence University and Cairo University) Qualified (since 2000) by the French National Council of Universities to Teach Modern and Contemporary History, Arabic Language and Town Planning Teaching experience * 1999/2000: Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I)History (Social History France 19th c., International Relations Mediterranean-Ottoman Empire XVIII-XXth c.) * 2000/2002: Université de Tours, France. History (Urban History Europe and Mediterranean XIX-XXth c.) * 2003/2004: Université de Provence, Master ST, Arles: History of Architecture and Town Planning in Maghreb and the Middle-East. * Since 2006: Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar, ZMO Berlin Research experience: * 1993-1996: Junior Researcher, CNRS Telemme Aix-en-Provence University * 1996-1999: Junior researcher at the French research center in Tunis (IRMC) * 2000-2003: Post-doctoral Fellowship Cnrs Urbama, Tours, France * 2003-2004: Associate researcher with MALD Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne * 2004-2005: Fellow of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin). * Since 2006: Researcher with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin Chair (with Prof. U. Freitag), of the "Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions" Research Programme, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Programme "Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe" http://www.wiko-berlin.de/kolleg/projekte/AKMI/ena?hpl=2 Books: Une ville du Maghreb: Tripoli entre Ancien régime et réformes ottomanes (1795-1911), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002, 305p. (Available on amazon.fr and fnac.com) Review in English available on H-NET: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=175091053761785 Les annales tripolitaines de Charles Féraud with an introduction by Nora Lafi, Paris, Bouchène, 2005, 437p. (Available on amazon.fr and fnac.com) Municipalités méditerranéennes. Les réformes urbaines ottomanes au miroir d'une histoire comparée (Moyen-Orient, Maghreb, Europe méridionale) (Ed.), Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2005. (Available on amazon.de) Papers available in English: "From Europe to Tripoli via Istanbul: municipal reforms in an outpost of the Ottoman Empire around 1870", in Nasr & Volait (Eds.), Urbanism: imported or Exported?, London, Wiley, 2003. “The Ottoman Municipal Reforms between Old Regime and Modernity: Towards a New Interpretative Paradigm”, in 1st International Eminönü Symposium, Istanbul, Eminönü Belediyesi, 2006, 508p., p.348-355 http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/14/62/10/PDF/LafiEminonuOttomanReforms.pdf «Local Élites and Italian town-Planning Procedures in Early Colonial Tripoli 1911-1912 », Libyan Studies Journal, (avec D. Bocquet), Vol. 3, n°1, Oxford, p. 59-68 http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Lafi/lafi-bocquet_local_elites.pdf "Mediterranean Connections. The Circulation of Municipal Knowledge and Practices during the Ottoman Reforms, c. 1830-1910" in Saunier (Pierre-Yves) and Ewen (Shane) (eds.), Another Global City. Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850-2000, New-York-Houndmills, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, 242p., p.35-50 Muslim Networks, in Pierre-Yves Saunier and Akira Iriye (eds), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, New-York, Palgrave, 2009, p.738-742. For a selection of papers in free-access, see my ZMO web page and HAL-SHS |
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