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 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 a significant 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-EastMonographies
, 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.
