Session 1A -The Ottoman Roots of Modern Iraq

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 – (Independent Scholar) – Governing Property in Basra in the Late Ottoman
  Empire: A Quantitative Analysis
  Session in honor of Tareq Ismael