Nora Lafi
Nora Lafi is a French historian of
Algerian origin, born in 1965 in
Istres, near
Marseilles. She is currently a researcher with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in
Berlin. She is a specialist of the history of the
Ottoman Empire and specifically of Arab towns of
North Africa and the
Middle-East 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,
Michigan State University).
Nora Lafi is an 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.
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