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Avner Wishnitzer
Tel Aviv University
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Beit Hakerem St. 4/6
96343 Jerusalem
Israel
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Fertile Crescent
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Temporality In The Late Ottoman Middle East
Nighttime And Nightlife
History Of Cognition And Emotions
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Hebrew (native)
English (fluent)
French (elementary)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2010 | The Graduate School of Historical Studies | Tel Aviv Univeristy
MA | 2006 | Middle East & African History | Tel Aviv university
BA | 2002 | Middle East & African History | Tel Aviv University
Abstracts
Enlightened: Elite Nightlife in Eighteenth Century Istanbul On Time and Emotions in the Late Ottoman Period Beneath the Mustache: a History of Facial Hair in the Late Ottoman Middle East "Meet me by the Lantern on Jaffa Street:" A Nocturnal History of Late Ottoman Jerusalem Yawn: Idleness and Boredom in the Late Ottoman Empire A Pillow Talk: On Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire