Participant Info

First Name
A. Ebru
Last Name
Akcasu
Country
Czech Republic
State
Affiliation
Anglo-American University
Website URL
https://soas.academia.edu/AEbruAkcasu
Keywords
Late Ottoman History (esp. migration, gender, nationalism); translation.
Availability
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Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

Personal Info

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About Me
Recent Publications

Articles

“Nation and Migration in Late Ottoman Spheres of (Legal) Belonging: a Comparative Look at Laws on Nationality.” Nationalities Papers (February 2021): 1-19. DOI: 10.1017/nps.2020.79.

“Şemsettin Sami’s Women: (Self-) Censored Reflections on Gender, Islam, and Progress – Ženy Şemsettina Samiho: (Auto) cenzurované úvahy o genderu, islámu a pokroku.” Nový Orient 74, (2019/3): 70-78.

“Migrants to Citizens: An Evaluation of the Expansionist Features of Hamidian Ottomanism, 1876 – 1909.” Die Welt des Islams 56, 3/4 (2016): 388-414.

Chapter in an Edited Volume

“Muslim Woman: a case study in collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and class boundaries in the late Ottoman Empire,” in Hülya Adak and Richard Wittmann, eds. Mapping Gender in the Near East, Pera-Blätter 36 (2022): 17-19.

Translation

“Letters to the Author: Late-Ottoman Debates About Equality Between the Sexes, an Extract from Halil Hamid’s Müsavat-ı Tamme.” SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research 9 (2015/16): 68-72.

Book Reviews

Review of Istanbul-Kushta-Constantinople: Narratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital, 1830-1930, by Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann, ed., Biography 43/4 (2020): 855-859.

Review of When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire, by Yiğit Akın, Review of Middle East Studies (December 2019): 389-391.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Ottoman Empire
Expertise by Geography
Middle East
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Religion, Urban History, Women