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Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire

Losing Istanbul

Mostafa Minawi

Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa

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<p>Mostafa Minawi was born in Beirut to Palestinian parents. He immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of 15. His first book "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz" was published in 2016 by Stanford University Press and deals with Ottoman imperial rule and inter-imperial competition for Eastern Sahara and its trans-imperial impact on Ottoman administration in the Hijaz. It was translated into Turkish in 2018, and into Arabic by the Africa Institute in Sharjah in 2023. His second book "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire" was published in 2022 and is an intimate history of global events told through the lives of several Arab-Ottoman imperialists from the Levant who called Istanbul home for generations. The book focuses on the experience of living through the end of the Age of Empire in the metropole as "Arab" vs. "Turk" style of ethnoracial differentiation and ethnic nationalism rose in the SWANA region. Minawi teaches history at Cornell University in New York State and spends a great deal of time in Istanbul and Beirut and the wider SWANA region.</p>

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