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Orcun Okan
Columbia University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Arab Studies
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Fertile Crescent
Anatolia
Arab States
Iraq
Lebanon
Mashreq
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Turkey
The Levant
Specialties
Transition To Post-Ottoman Regimes After WWI
Turkey And The LoN Mandates In Mashreq
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
MPhil | 2016 | History | Columbia University
MA | 2015 | History | Columbia University
MA | 2013 | History | Bogazici University
BA | 2010 | Turkish Language and Literature | Bogazici University
BA | 2010 | History | Bogazici University
Abstracts
Capitalist Modernities and ‘Xenophobia’: Politics of Employment in post-Ottoman Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq in the 1920s