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Benjamin Smuin
University of California, San Diego
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Department of History
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 5th floor 9500 Gilman Drive, #0104
La Jolla CA 92093-0104
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
State Formation
Colonialism
Modern
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Globalization
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Syria
Specialties
Nationalism, State Formation, And Citizenship
Late- And Post-Ottoman Syria
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ottoman (elementary)
Education
MA | 2011 | Middle East Studies | University of Utah
BS | 2007 | History | Weber State University
Abstracts
"Berets and Bullets: Military Instruction and Nationalism in French Mandate Syria" Globalizing the Local: Speaking to the State and Acts of Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century Middle East Doctors, Lawyers, and Extremists: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Kayyali and a New Politics of Notables in Interwar Syria Justice and Corruption in Late Ottoman Aleppo: The Tenure of Cemil Pasha Citizenship between Empire and Nation: The Persistence of Ottoman Modernity in Mandate Syria