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Nora Barakat
Stanford University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
1117 Del Cambre Dr.
Apt. 105
San Jose CA 95129
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Ottoman Empire
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
French (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
MA | 2007 | International Affairs | Columbia University
BA | 2001 | Sociology | Brandeis University
Abstracts
Managing Property Relations Between Pastoralists, Cultivators and the State: The Role of "Nomads" and "Tribes" in Late Ottoman Land Administration
Rethinking Ottoman Reforms of the Early Twentieth Century: Animal Theft in the Provinces and Central Attempts to Identify Animals
Sources of Legitimacy in Ottoman Property Administration: Contested Legal Pluralism in Late Ottoman Syria
Rethinking Legal Pluralism: Late Ottoman Administration and Land Politics in Hamidian Syria
Contested Credit: The Dynamics of Mortgage in Late Ottoman Syria
Pious Foundations? Waqf and Reform in Nineteenth Century Syria
Pastoral Land Use and Ottoman Law in Late Ottoman Syria
Codification and Conflicts Over Capital in the Eastern Mediterranean
Improving the Desert: Tent-Dwellers and Taxation in the Syrian-Arabian Borderlands
Peasant Ignorance, Legal Rupture, and the History of Agrarian Capitalism in Late Ottoman Syria
Avoiding the Fate of Egypt: Finance, Development and Sovereignty in Late Ottoman Economic Thought