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Omar Cheta
Syracuse University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Syracuse University
145 Eggers Hall
Syracuse NY 13244
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Soc Hist Of Ottoman Emp & Arab Provinces
Economic And Legal History Of 19th Century Egypt
Education
PhD | 2014 | History/Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies | New York University
MA | 2006 | Ctr for ME Stds | U of Chicago
BA | 2004 | Economics | American University in Cairo
Abstracts
How Commerce Became Legal: Defining “Commerce” in Late Ottoman Egypt By What Standard?: The Dynamics of Market Standardization in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt Merchants, Bureaucrats and the Question of Commercial Debt in the Nineteenth Century Forger and Swindler: Evolving Views of the Legal Profession in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries What Would the 19th-Century Marx Say About Cairo's Silk Weavers?