Coming soon
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Buessow, Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (in print).
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New edited volume on urban history
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Buessow (eds.), From the Household to the Wider World: Local Perspectives on Urban Institutions in Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, 2023.
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Just out from the press
Yuval Ben-Bassat und Johann Buessow, Arguing for Political Legitimacy in a Late Ottoman City: A Fictional Literary Dialogue from Gaza, c. 1895. Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2023.
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New publication: “Applying Digital Methods to the Study of a Late Ottoman City: A Social and Spatial Analysis of Political Partisanship in Gaza"
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Buessow, “Applying Digital Methods to the Study of a Late Ottoman City: A Social and Spatial Analysis of Political Partisanship in Gaza,” JESHO (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient) 63 (2020): 505-554.
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Exhibition "Gaza 1900"
Exhibition in Bochum: „Gaza 1900 – Eine Stadt des östlichen Mittelmeers im Umbruch / A City of the Eastern Mediterranean in Transition“.
Haus der Archäologien, Am Bergbaumuseum 31, 44791 Bochum.
5 July – 31 October 2019. Open daily, Monday-Friday, 9 am - 4 pm
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New publication: “Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914"
Yuval Ben-Bassat and Johann Büssow, “Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914: Local Politics and Spatial Divisions”, JESHO (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient) 61,4 (2018), pp. 606-649.
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Second Project Workshop in Haifa: "Urban Polities and Urban Governance in Nineteenth Century Bilad al-Sham"
20-23 March 2018
Venue: University of Haifa
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New publication: "Marginal Diplomacy: Alexander Knesevich and the Consular Agency in Gaza, 1905-1914"
Halevy, Dotan. 2017. "Marginal Diplomacy: Alexander Knesevich and the Consular Agency in Gaza, 1905–1914." Jerusalem Quarterly 70: 81–93.
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Best paper award
10 December 2017: Ahmad Fahoum wins prize in 'Jara'id' competition.
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Best thesis award
October 2017: Best thesis prize awarded to Dotan Halevy.
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Tuebingen, 15 and 16 May 2017: Two Talks by Prof. M. Erdem Kabadayı (Koç University, Istanbul)
"eScience and the Challenge of Arabic Script: Building up Interdisciplinary Research Teams to Develop Intelligent Character Recognition Methodologies for late Ottoman Censuses"
15 May 2017, 10 - 12 am. Venue: University of Tuebingen, University Library, Schulungsraum (Bonatzbau, B 004), Wilhelmstraße 32.
"Reading and Mapping Late Ottoman Censuses for Istanbul and for Other Cities"
16 May 2017, 4 - 6 pm. Venue: Abteilung für Orient- und Islamwissenschaft, Wilhelmstraße 113.
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First Project Workshop in Tuebingen: "Urban Politics in Late Ottoman Greater Syria and Beyond: Commonalities and Particularities"
12-13 May 2017
Venue: University of Tuebingen
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