Nora Lafi
Nora Lafi 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 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.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- , Leiden, Brill, 2018, 360p.
;Edited and Co-Edited Books
- , Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 190p.
- , Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, 334p.
- , Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, 238p.
- , Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 288p.
- , Berlin, K. Schwarz, 2005, 370p.