Ordering Imperial Worlds

Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. Her works include The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Epic Poet in Performance (1988); The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998); Women and Power in the Middle East (co-editor, 2001); The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (editor, 2001); The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005); How to Accept German Reparations (2014); and Race, Trace, Place: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe (co-editor, 2022).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Engaging the Work of Zeynep ÇelikPart 1: Unbounded MethodologiesSusan Slyomovics, Unbounded MethodologiesZeynep Çelik, Whose Modernity? Whose Imperial Order? Jerusalem between the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early British MandateJerrilynn Dodds, Architecture, Conversion and Projection in Colonial CastileJulia Clancy-Smith, Navigations: Re-Imagining North Africa in the Mediterranean, c. 1750 – 1900Heghnar Watenpaugh, Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: Urban Histories of Aleppo During the French MandatePart 2: Variations on Late Ottoman CultureSusan Slyomovics, Variations on Late Ottoman CultureSelim Kuru, An Atlas of Desire: Enderunlu Fazıl’s View of the World from the late 18th CenturyNicolas Dufetel, European Musicians at the Sultan Court (1599-1846): Diplomacy and Fantasy from an English Organ to the Forty French Singers’ Ottoman OdysseyEdhem Eldem, Les costumes populaires de la Turquie, Once AgainPart 3: Chronologies and Spaces of ContainmentSusan Slyomovics, Chronologies and Spaces of ContainmentBurçak Özlüdil Altin, Crossing Paths: Medical Journeys, Imperial SurveysMarc André, Segregating Space, Integrating Time: Architecture and Memory in a French Political PrisonSamia Henni, Toxifying the Sahara: France’s Atomic Built Environments