Nora Lafi
{{short description|French historian}}
Nora Lafi (born 1965) is a French historian of Algerian origin.
Biography
She was born in 1965 in Istres. She is currently a researcher with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. She is a specialist of the history of the Ottoman Empire and specifically of Arab towns of North Africa and the Middle-East during the Ottoman period. She chairs, with Ulrike Freitag, the research field "Cities compared: cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and beyond", part of the EUME programme at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. She is co-founder and editor of H-Mediterranean (H-Net, Michigan State University).
Nora Lafi is an expert in the following fields:
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- History of Libya, Tunisia and Algeria
- The notion of old regime
- Comparative history
- Urban Studies Middle-East.
Main publications
;Monographies
- [https://brill.com/abstract/title/36470 Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman], Leiden, Brill, 2018, 360p.
- [http://www.harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=4980 Une ville du Maghreb entre ancien régime et réformes ottomanes. Tripoli 1795-1911, Paris, 2002]
;Edited and Co-Edited Books
- [https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-City-through-its-Margins-Pluridisciplinary-Perspectives/Chappatte-Freitag-Lafi/p/book/9781138045897 Understanding the City through its Margins], Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 190p. (Ed. with U. Freitag and A. Chappatte)
- [http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/FreitagUrban Urban Violence in the Middle East], Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, 334p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, N. Fuccaro, C. Ghrawi)
- [https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Governance-Under-the-Ottomans-Between-Cosmopolitanism-and-Conflict/Freitag-Lafi/p/book/9781138299382 Urban Governance Under the Ottomans], Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, 238p. (Ed. with U. Freitag)
- [https://www.routledge.com/The-City-in-the-Ottoman-Empire-Migration-and-the-making-of-urban-modernity/Freitag-Fuhrmann-Lafi-Riedler/p/book/9781138788978 The City in the Ottoman Empire], Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 288p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, F. Riedler)
- [http://www.klaus-schwarz-verlag.com/index.php?title=Nora+Lafi+%3A&art_no=STUDIEN21 Municipalités Méditerranéennes], Berlin, K. Schwarz, 2005, 370p.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402091300/https://networks.h-net.org/users/nora-lafi Nora Lafi´s homepage at H-Net]
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Category:French women historians
Category:French people of Algerian descent