Empire of Refugees is officially out today!

I wrote this piece a few years to try to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s finally out now and is meant to give a sense of what and why it is happening. Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War read.dukeupress.edu/critical…

I am excited to talk about Ottoman and global migration histories (Empire of Refugees, @stanfordpress) today at 5:15 at @UniLeipzig. Many thanks to @ReCentGlobe @GESIUniLeipzig for hosting. sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/globa…

I don't think most people are fully grasping what happened to Omar Artan. Citizens of African countries cannot travel to the US without first navigating a highly restrictive, discriminatory visa process. Africans face the highest refusal rates globally, not only for US visas

21 Mayıs 1864 Çerkes Soykırımı ve Sürgünü Unutmadık

The @AAUP & the AFT have just issued a strong & helpful statement defending academic freedom and condemning the ridiculous campaign of intimidation that has been launched against me. I am most grateful for this. Here is the statement: aaup.org/news/aaup-aft-labor…

New out! Open Access! Samuel Dolbee links the transnational environmental history of agriculture with the history of racial formation and immigration in the United States. #Ottomanempire #California #agriculture #environmentalhistory #races #Armenians doi.org/10.1017/S17400228261…

My new paper on the crystallization of kayadez, Jewish political quetism, is out! I read through the 10 year run of La Boz de Türkiye, the only (later main) Jewish newspaper in Turkey 1939-1949. Scroll this the thread for a summary of main arguments and the link!

Amazing, @alp_yenen! Cannot wait to read this book!

A piece I have worked on for nearly a decade is out. Kantousha and the PoxNotes on Accompaniment read.dukeupress.edu/public-c…

In Needs That Bind (Stanford University Press), Orçun Can Okan shows how states and ordinary people navigated the post-Ottoman order through diplomatic, administrative, and legal dealings across bureaucracies, while tracing the ties that endured between republican Turkey and the French and British Mandates in Syria-Lebanon and Iraq. sup.org/books/middle-east-st…

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, bu çalışmasında, 19. yüzyılda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun, Milletler Cemiyeti ve Birleşmiş Milletler’in kurduğu mülteci sistemlerinden çok daha önce bir mülteci rejimi oluşturduğunu vurguluyor ve tarihyazımsal bir düzeltme sunuyor. iletisim.com.tr/kitap/muhaci… @VHTroyansky

Such an incredible teaching and movement resource, especially now. Rich with insights on histories of the Arab world, including (and so rarely done, the Gulf), and political thought within and about movements and revolutions. Abed Takriti is a remarkable scholar and narrator.

I'm happy to have shared some thoughts about digital humanities methods, big data, and studying the history of the former Soviet Union with the @kennaninstitute.

Forthcoming in Stanford’s Ottoman History Series: Camille Lyans Cole - Accumulating Power: Capitalism, Belonging, and the Late Ottoman Order Accumulating Power offers a new way of thinking about belonging, sovereignty, and empire—and how the meanings of being "Ottoman" changed with the intersection of capitalism and imperial reform. Ottoman subjecthood and loyalty transformed around the turn of the twentieth century with the emergence of an international system and intensification of commodity production. Imperial belonging was conditioned by new discourses around community, increasing material conflict, and the new tools, forms, and ideologies of the modern state. People displayed their "Ottoman-ness" in how they coped with these novel political economies and shaped them to their own ends. With this book, Camille Lyans Cole traces Ottoman belonging through the making of a region, the Gulf of Basra—centered on the port city of Basra, extending to southern Iran and Kuwait—where people, water, commodities, ideas, and money all circulated. Here, elites' desire to claim Ottoman-ness often arose at points of friction between regional ways of life and the transforming structures of the territorializing modern empire-state. Cole centers the lives of six individuals, tracing how each contributed to the material and political worlds of the Gulf of Basra. Through these microhistories, Cole reveals how elites used "technologies of the state"—bureaucratic instruments, discourses, and symbols—to accumulate wealth, capital, access to resources, and imperial status and to declare their own Ottoman-ness. sup.org/books/middle-east-st…

Excited to share that I’ll be giving two book talks in the Los Angeles area next week, first at Occidental College and then at UCLA. Looking forward to discussing sectarianism and sectarian difference, mobility, and the politics of belonging in the Middle East, past and present. I’m particularly honored that the Middle Eastern and North African Students Association (MENASA) at Occidental invited me. I love engaging with undergraduate students and hearing their perspectives and questions. Hope to see some of you there!

An archive commemorating the lives of Palestinian scholars killed in the genocide in Gaza. rememberinggazascholars.org/