Session 1A -The Ottoman Roots of Modern Iraq
June 10 @ 9h40 – 11h30
Chair: Thabit A. J. Abdullah (York University)
Alda Benjamen (University of Dayton) – The Bazaar of Alqosh in the 19th–mid-20th
Centuries
Sara Farhan (University of North British Columbia) – Heroic Argot: Medico-Cultural
Microhistory and the Technocratic Imaginary of an Iraqi Nahdawi
Naz Yücel – (National Museum of Qatar, Qatar Museums) – Governing Property in Basra in the Late Ottoman
Empire: A Quantitative Analysis
Session in honor of Tareq Ismael