The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the
infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen …

A “captivating” account of the starvation and disease that wracked far-from-the-front Beirut
during WWI, and the relief efforts that followed (Middle East Journal). With the exception of a …

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred
years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death …

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an
illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the" …

The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman
Empire is explored through the lens of the Ottoman Railway network, its architecture, and …

The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon the role
of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the …

The centenary year of the Armenian genocide witnessed an escalation in cultural production
and both political and academic focus. This paper looks at some of the sites and spaces …

While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called
“Islamic Caliphate” have brought the debate about the crisis of the territorial nation-state in …

Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation
of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and …

On March 2, 1925, a Kurdish force numbering close to seven thousand descended from the
eastern Taurus Mountains to the Tigris plains to besiege Amed (Diyarbakir), an ancient …