{"title":"‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 1803","authors":"Fatma Sel Turhan","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2268009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2268009","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the story of a balloon accident in the Bihke region of Bosnia in 1803, this article evaluates the balloon technology of the period through the life of Francesco Zambeccari, who was the aer...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause","authors":"Denis V. Volkov","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2267984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2267984","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the writings of the founding representatives of late Imperial Russia’s Oriental studies, and documents from Russian archives, this article first traces Professor Nikolay Veselovsky’s (18...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The battle over the Zionist maritime ethos: ‘Sea Day’ and claims to the Land of Israel’s sea culture","authors":"Kobi Cohen-Hattab","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2248895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2248895","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWithin the Zionist movement, the sea initially served no nationalistic purpose; it was a means of transit, a conduit for ingathering the Jewish diaspora. The Zionist leadership neglected the sea as a tool, emphasizing ‘Jewish work’ in agriculture instead. But the sea held meaning in modern nationalism for many countries, and the pre-state Land of Israel was no exception. The Yishuv institutions began to recognize the sea’s significance for the national movement in the mid-1930s and acted to impose its authority in the field. It was then that conflicts erupted over the origins of Jewish seafaring, with the right-wing Revisionist movement laying claim to the Zionist sea ethos and attacking the central institutions’ initial dismissive attitude to the maritime field. This dispute, and its expressions surrounding Sea Day celebrations, can be understood within the Yishuv’s broader politics and the different institutions’ attempts to cement their own status. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 On the formation of the political system in Israel in the first years after the state’s establishment, against the backdrop of political struggles between right and left during the Yishuv era, see I. Galnoor and D. Blander (eds), The Political System of Israel: Formative Years, Institutional Structure, Political Behavior, Unsolved Problems, Democracy in Israel (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2013) (Hebrew).2 J. Hearn, ‘The Origin of Modern Nationalism in the North Atlantic Interaction Sphere’, Social Research Online Vol.14, no.5 (November 2009), https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/sroa/14/5.3 I. Land, War, Nationalism and the British Sailor, 1750–1850 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p.7; M. Lincoln, Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750–1815 (London: Routledge, 2002), pp.3, 6.4 D. Legget, ‘Navy, Nation and Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century’, Journal of Maritime Research Vol.13, no.2 (2011), pp.151–63; C. I. Hamilton, ‘Naval Hagiography and the Victorian Hero’, Historical Journal Vol.23, no.2 (1980), pp.381–98.5 ‘Trafalgar Day’, Royal Navy, https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/features/trafalgar-day (accessed 12 December 2022).6 Peter Hoare (ed.), The Trafalgar Chronicle: Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 4 (Barnsley: Seaforth, 2019): https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Trafalgar-Chronicle-ePub/p/21775 (accessed 13 December 2022).7 ‘Trafalgar Day in Britain’, HaMashkif, 22 October 1942, p.1.8 A.C. Swinburne, ‘Trafalgar Day’, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Mar. 1877–Dec. 1900 Vol.38, no.225 (Nov 1895), pp.713–14.9 H. Lewis-Jones, ‘“Displaying Nelson”: Navalism and “The Exhibition” of 1891’, International Journal of Maritime History Vol.17, no.1 (June 2005), pp.29–67.10 W.E. Lenz, ‘Narratives of Exploration, Sea Fiction, Mariners’ Chronicles, and the Rise of American Nationalism: “To Cast Anchor on that Point Where All Meridians T","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946)","authors":"Özlem Gürsoy, Mustafa Gündüz","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2262397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2262397","url":null,"abstract":"Since the early nineteenth century, various ideologies have attempted to design education systems with an abundance of military attitudes for the future of the state and society, thereby benefiting...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante","authors":"Servet Tiken, Özlem Sürücü","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2260317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2260317","url":null,"abstract":"In the Ottoman Empire, opposition journalism outside the country presented its first examples during the reign of Abdülaziz. Publishing newspapers outside the country reached its peak during the re...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’","authors":"Refika Altıkulaç Demirdağ, Ali Altıkulaç","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2258066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2258066","url":null,"abstract":"The establishment of the Turkish and Irish republics took place nearly simultaneously, under the influence of the nationalist movement. This study discusses the cultural foundations of nationalism ...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s","authors":"Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2255139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2255139","url":null,"abstract":"With the signing of the Ankara Agreement in 1930 between Turkey and Greece, the Greek government withdrew its open support for Turkish political opponents of the Kemalist government and expelled such figures from Western Thrace. Among them were some Yüzellilikler, the 150 people proscribed by the Turkish government under the Protocol of the Lausanne Treaty of 1923. The Yüzellilikler, who had gained the status of refugees under the protection of the League of Nations as a result of the 1928 Arrangement, now turned to the League for support. Focusing on the cases of the ex-şeyhülislam Mustafa Sabri and former Ottoman police officer Namık Hilmi, this article discusses the role of the Athens Office of the Nansen International Office for Refugees of the League of Nations in supporting and strengthening the position of the Turkish political opposition to the Kemalist regime in Turkey in the early 1930s.","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135015420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 2023","authors":"Amos Nadan","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2237416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2237416","url":null,"abstract":"When reading texts mentioning past currencies, especially those that were in use in Ottoman and British Palestine and the first decade of the State of Israel, historians often remain puzzled as to ...","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture","authors":"Uri Rosenberg","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2249831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2249831","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48011829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}