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Adam Mestyan
Duke University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
History Department Duke University
114 Campus Drive
Durham NC 27708
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Nationalism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Music
Drama
Islamic Law
State Formation
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
State Formation, Imperial Law And Economy
Arab Theatre And Music
Nationalism
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Hungarian (native)
Turkish (elementary)
Ottoman (intermediate)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2011 | History | CEU
MA | 2007 | History | CEU
MA | 2005 | Arabic and Semitic Philology | ELTE
Abstracts
A “Turkish” Visiting Theatre Troupe from Istanbul to Egypt (1880s) The Nightingale of the Nation: the entanglements of 'Abduh al-Hamuli Monarchical Patriotism: Power, Taste and the Khedivial Opera House, 1880s Arab Monarchical Patriotism, 1831-1914 The Club des Princes and the origins of ‘Imad al-Din street Technology and Euro-Egyptian Imperialism:The First Arabic Military Journal, 1873-1877 The Empty Throne of Syria, 1926-1928: Territorial Unification and The Missing 'Native Ruler’ A Muslim Regulatory Framework of Ownership: The Case of “Taqsit” in Khedivial Egypt