Nora Lafi

Nora Lafi (born 1965) is a French historian of Algerian origin.

Biography

She was born in 1965 in Istres. 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.

Main publications

Monographies

• Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 360p.
• Une ville du Maghreb entre ancien régime et réformes ottomanes. Tripoli 1795-1911, Paris, 2002

Edited and Co-Edited Books

• Understanding the City through its Margins, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 190p. (Ed. with U. Freitag and A. Chappatte)
• Urban Violence in the Middle East, Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, 334p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, N. Fuccaro, C. Ghrawi)
• Urban Governance Under the Ottomans, Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, 238p. (Ed. with U. Freitag)
• The City in the Ottoman Empire, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 288p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, F. Riedler)
• Municipalités Méditerranéennes, Berlin, K. Schwarz, 2005, 370p.

External links

• Nora Lafi´s homepage at H-Net