Nora Lafi is a French historian of
Algeria
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n origin, born in 1965 in
Istres
Istres (; Occitan: Istre) is a commune in southern France, some 60 km (38 mi) northwest of Marseille. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture.
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Marseilles. She is currently a researcher with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in
Berlin
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. She is a specialist of the history of the
Ottoman Empire
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and specifically of Arab towns of
North Africa
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and the
Middle-East
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during the Ottoman period. She chairs, with Ulrike Freitag, the research field "Cities compared: cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and beyond", part of the EUME programme at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. She is co-founder and editor of H-Mediterranean (
H-Net
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Michigan State University).
Nora Lafi is a significant expert in the following fields:
History of the Ottoman Empire
History of Libya, Tunisia and Algeria
The notion of old regime
Comparative history
Urban Studies Middle-East.
Main publications
Monographies
Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman Leiden, Brill, 2018, 360p.
''Une ville du Maghreb entre ancien régime et réformes ottomanes. Tripoli 1795-1911'', Paris, 2002
Edited and Co-Edited Books
Understanding the City through its Margins Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 190p. (Ed. with U. Freitag and A. Chappatte)
Urban Violence in the Middle East Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, 334p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, N. Fuccaro, C. Ghrawi)
Urban Governance Under the Ottomans Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, 238p. (Ed. with U. Freitag)
The City in the Ottoman Empire Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 288p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, F. Riedler)
Municipalités Méditerranéennes Berlin, K. Schwarz, 2005, 370p.
External links
Nora Lafi´s homepage at H-Net
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1965 births
Living people
French women historians
French people of Algerian descent
People from Istres
20th-century French historians
21st-century French historians