Very much looking forward to speaking about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Yale this Thursday!

If you are nearby, please stop by. (And we'll also rally that day!)

Many thanks to Yale's Council on Middle East Studies and the brilliant Eda Pepi for hosting.

Very excited to talk about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024) at Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) this Wed, Mar 12. Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in the Netherlands.

Many thanks to @ozanozavci1.bsky.social for the invitation!

This roundtable article builds on my first book, Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), and offers a glimpse into my second book project on hijra, or Muslim refugee migration, across Eurasia in the modern era. (2) www.sup.org/books/middle...

Friends and colleagues heading to #ASEEES24 in Boston, join us on Sat, Nov 23, at 12:00 pm, for the book discussion — EMPIRE OF REFUGEES (Stanford, 2024). Themes: migration, the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, Islam.

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Dear digital attendees of our very virtual MESA annual meeting, please join us on Wed, Nov 13, at 2:30–4:30 pm EST, for a sparkling panel on immigration in early republican Turkey, feat. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular, Gözde Emen Gökatalay, Ellinor Morack, and Sarah Shields! #MESA2024

Book talk at the Anglo-Turkish Society. Mon, Oct 7, at 6:00 p.m. BST.

Book talk at the University of Edinburgh. Mon, Sep 30, at 5:15 p.m. BST. Many thanks to the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

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Dear UK colleagues and friends,

I will be giving several virtual talks about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024). Zoom in!

Sep 30 — University of Edinburgh
Oct 2 — University College London
Oct 7 — Anglo-Turkish Society
Oct 28 — King's College London

More details below.

My first book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (February 2024), is available for preorder! Stanford University Press is running a 30% off sitewide sale through the end of February 2024! www.sup.org/books/title/...

My new article, “Letters from the Ottoman Empire: Migration from the Caucasus and Russia’s Pan-Islamic Panic,” has been published by Slavic Review. For years, I have been searching for Muslim refugees’ letters exchanged across the Russo-Ottoman border in the 1850s–1914. doi.org/10.1017/slr.... (1)

Happy to share my new article on the attempted return of the North Caucasian diaspora in the Middle East to its homeland within the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation since the 1960s, published in Kritika.

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