| 日時 | 2016年2月19日（金） 17:00-18:30 |
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| 場所 | 東京外国語大学本郷サテライト 5F会議室 （文京区本郷2-14-10） Access Guide |
| 使用言語 | 英語（通訳なし） |
| 主催 | 基幹研究「中東・イスラーム圏における人間移動と多元的社会編成」 |
| 参加費無料、事前申し込み不要 |
- Malek Sharif
- “Swimming against the currents: On the unpublished memoirs of an Arab-Ottoman officer during WWI”
Summary :
In this talk Dr. Malek Sharif will introduce the memoirs and discuss their significance in view of other reminiscences dealing with the same period. Some themes in the memoirs will be analysed, like the author’s experience as a Boy Scout and later as a cadet in Istanbul as well as his experience as a young officer in the Ottoman army on the west Jordanian front. The self perception of the author as an educated Beiruti, an Arab and an Ottoman officer will be discussed.
Short Bio of Dr. Malek Sharif :
Malek Sharif holds a BA in History and a MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut. In 2004, he received his PhD in Ottoman History from the Free University of Berlin, Institute of Turkic Studies. 2004-2005 he was affiliated to the German Orient Institute in Istanbul, as a post doctoral fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. From 2005 until 2007 he was a fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation residing in Istanbul where he conducted research on the parliamentary, municipal and medical history of the Ottoman Empire. From 2008 until 2014 he was visiting assistant professor and lecturer at the American University of Beirut. He is currently senior research associate at the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae at the University of Münster.
He is the author of Imperial Norms and Local Realities: The Ottoman Municipal Laws and the Municipality of Beirut (1860-1908), 2014, and coeditor of The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy, 2010. He also wrote on migration, health care, the closing days of the Ottoman Empire in Beirut and the first Ottoman parliament.
