Untold Histories of the Middle East

Amy Singer is Professor of Ottoman history at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the Ottoman public kitchens (imaret), and on the city of Edirne. She won the 2008 Sak¿p Sabanc¿ International Research Award in Turkish Studies for 'The Persistence of Philanthropy'.

This book examines the historiography of the Middle East and the consequent silences or omissions. It provides a collection of important histories from the modern era, particularly relating to the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics of the period.

Introduction: ReSounding Silent Voices Selçuk Ak¿in Somel, Christoph K. Neumann, and Amy Singer Part I: Missing Women 1. Unraveling Layers of Gendered Silencing: Converted Armenian Survivors of the 1915 Catastrophe Ay¿e Gül Alt¿nay and Yektan Türky¿lmaz 2. Interfaith Unions and Non-Muslim Wives in the Early Twentieth-Century Alexandria Islamic Courts Hanan Kholoussy 3. The Silence of the Pregnant Bride: Non-Marital Sex in Middle Eastern Societies Liat Kozma Part II: Marginal Lives 4. Silent Voices within the Elites: The Social Biography of a Modern Shaykh Yoav Alon 5. A Nationalist Discourse of Heroism and Treason: The Construction of an "Official" Image of Çerkes Ethem (1886-1948) in Turkish Historiography, and Recent Challenges Bülent Bilmez 6. On the Margins of National Historiography: The Greek ¿ttihatçi Emmanouil Emmanouilidis - Opportunist or Ottoman patriot? Vangelis Kechriotis 7. The Ottoman Empire's Absent Nineteenth Century: Autonomous Subjects Christine Philliou 8. Looking Behind Hajji Baba of Ispahan: The Case of Mirza Abul Hasan Khan Ilchi Shirazi Naghmeh Sohrabi Part III: Memories of Conflicts 9. Between the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the "Third Balkan War" of the 1990s: The Memory of the Balkans in Arabic Writings Eyal Ginio 10. The Courts of the Palestinian-Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 Mustafa Kabha 11. Multiplicity or Polarity: A Discursive Analysis of post-1908 Violence in an Ottoman Region Meltem Toksöz