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...Benjamin C. Fortna Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Few would deny the centrality of reading to modern so- hand, and the flimsiness of the underlying evidence...

...Benjamin C. Fortna This article examines the concepts of public and private in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic through the worlds of child readers. It interrogates the shifting lines of demarcation between public and private against the background of children learning to read...

... the state. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Old Elites in a New Republic: The Reconversion of Ottoman Bureaucratic Families in Turkey (1909 – 1939...

...Zoe Griffith State building and nationalism have been widely examined in the context of both the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish Republic. This article explores the role of Islamic calligraphy and calligraphers during the final decades of Ottoman rule and through the twentieth century...

...Nasser Mohajer; Mehrdad Vahabi This essay takes a stylized paradoxical fact of Iranian politics under the Islamic Republic of Iran as its starting point: the stark confusion between the position and a good portion of the opposition. Such a blurred frontier between “position” and “opposition” did...

...Kyle T. Evered “Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic Wyers Mark David Istanbul : Libra Kitap , 2012 312 pp., 35,00 TL (cloth) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

...Bahram Rajaee Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Deciphering Iran: The Political Evolution of the Islamic Republic and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11 Bahram Rajaee In the aftermath of 9/11, the Bush administration competition for political...

...Eva Patricia Rakel Duke University Press 2009 The Political Elite in the Islamic Republic of Iran: From Khomeini to Ahmadinejad Eva Patricia Rakel hirty years after the Islamic revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) remains the subject...

..., and perquisites of rule were fundamental to the theory Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic; and practice of sovereignty” (276–77) and that the The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from British willingly misunderstood this anthropologi- 1789 to Present cal fact in their zest for imperial...

... of the Republic of the Ivory Coast Veerle Van Gijsegem hile doing fi eldwork with the Wê, an ethnic group living in the western region of the Republic of the Ivory Coast, I had the opportunity to observe a witchcraft trial in one of their villages, in May 1999. Confronted...

... the school's integration into the independent republic's networks of employment and expertise. The school took the new name École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB) in 1948. ESIB retained a practical monopoly on engineering education, its graduates continued to dominate the state services...

...G. Carole Woodall Istanbul of the 1920s evoked a period of transition and redefinition in the aftermath of World War I and the onset of the Turkish Republic (1923). Precisely, what position Istanbul would occupy as well as its constituents in the nascent republic was in flux. Debates around...

...Shervin Malekzadeh Malekzadeh’s article traces the development of the social, religious, cultural, and political messages that have shaped the image of the child and childhood within postrevolutionary Farsi textbooks (grades 1–3) produced by the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past thirty years...

... Jones, and others, Şadan attempted to produce a Turkish psychoanalytic canon. This canon nonetheless was bound to be different in form as it filtered through the cultural and socio-political structures of the early Turkish Republic. The article argues that Şadanian psychoanalysis accordingly engendered...

..., and cultural factors that impact their experiences as an ethnoreligious minority both during the Pahlavi era and in the current context of the Islamic Republic. Duke University Press 2010 Negotiated Allegiances: Contemporary Iranian Jewish...

... patterns of patronage, aesthetic understandings, professional specialization, and master-pupil relations. The social ethos of this art world provides the foundation for tracing Ottoman-Turkish-Jewish music making in the republic. By pursuing not only minority human and cultural losses in the twentieth...

... with the indigenous Indonesians. After the Japanese capitulation they were forced to side with either the new Indonesian republic or the returning Dutch administration. In both periods all kinds of new relationships came into being, both transient and lasting, and often mutually contradictory. World War II as well...

...Mojtaba Mahdavi Today's Iran under the Islamic state represents the most complex forms of post-Islamism in the Muslim world. The unintended consequences of the Islamic Republic have empowered and enlightened the public, transformed the people from subjects to citizens, and in effect have undermined...