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Nora Lafi

2019
- (Hg. mit André Chappatte und Ulrike Freitagi), Understanding the City through its Margins, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018 [Paperback edition]

- Rez.: Yuval Ben-Bassat, Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine, Library of Ottoman Studies 42 London: I.B. Tauris, 2013, 331p. In International Journal of Middle East Studies 51 (3), 502–503, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000515.

-Rez. Ammar (Leïla), La rue à Tunis, Planning Perspectives, 34 (4), 753-755, https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2019.1620039.

-Penser les marges de l'Europe : héritage ottoman, frontières invisibles et nouvelles forteresses. In Franck Hofmann and Markus Messling (eds), Point de fuite. La Méditerranée et la crise européenne, Hermann, 36-48.

-I mercanti veneziani ad Aleppo nel cinquecento: degli Ottomani come gli altri?. In Ester Capuzzo and Bruno Crevato Selvaggi (eds.), Atti del VI convegno internazionale, Venezia e il suo Stato da mar, Rom, 2019, 108-120.

2018
-(Hg. mit André Chappatte and Ulrike Freitag), Understanding the City through its Margins. Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Routledge (Routledge Studies in Modern History, 31), [2018], 190p.


-(mit André Chappatte and Ulrike Freitag), The City and its Regulations: Unexpected Margins, in: André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi (Hg.), Understanding the City through its Margins. Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East Abingdon, Routledge [2018].


- Paradoxical Forms of Urbanity on the Margins? The Kherba: a Vivid Market in a Damaged Section of the Medina of Tunis, in: André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi (Hg.), Understanding the City through its Margin. Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle Easts, Abingdon, Routledge [2018].

- et.al.: Repenser l'espace méditerranéen. Table ronde avec le groupe de chercheur "Transmed!". In Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse (OFAJ) (Ed.): Nouvelles perspectives pour les échanges internationeaux des jeunes. Stratégies communes de France, d'Allemagne, d'Algérie, du Maroc, de Tunisie. Konferenz. Synthése des rèsultat de conference Marseille 5.-8- Oktober 2016. Marseille, pp. 8–12. Available online at https://www.ofaj.org/ressources/conference-maghreb-2016.html

- Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman (XVe-XXe siècles), Leiden, Brill, Series The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, 2018, 360p.

-(mit Sanaa Alimia, André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag), In search of urbanity, ZMO Programmatic Texts No. 12, 21 S.

- Die Osmanische Stadt, guest-edited with Florian Riedler, Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2018-1, 83 p.

- "Die osmanische Stadt im Wandel (1850-1920)" (with Florian Riedler), Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2018-1, p. 5-15.

- "Tunis als Laboratorium osmanischer Modernität: das Beispiel der Vorstadtbahn (1863-1881)", Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2018-1, p. 16-25.

- Rez.: H. Khosravi, Tehran. Life within walls. A city, its territory and forms of dwelling, Planning Perspectives, 33 (3), 471.473.

- "Finding Women and Gender in the Sources: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Ottoman Tripoli", Journal of North African Studies, 2018.

- "Organizing Coexistence in Early Ottoman Aleppo: an Interpretation of the 1518, 1526 and 1536 Tahrîr Defteris and the 1536 Qanunname". In: Human Mobility and Multiethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies 2 (edited by Hidemitsu Kuroki), ILCAA Tokyo, 2018, p. 103-120.

- (mit Florian Riedler): "Administrative Boundaries, Communal Segregation and Factional Territorialisation: The Complex Nature of Urban Boundaries in the Ottoman Empire"Journal of the Economic and  Social History of the Orient 61 (2018) 593-605.

- Rez.: Naar Devin, Jewish Salonica. Between Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece, Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists.

- Rez.: Franck Mermier, Récits de villes: d’Aden à Beyrouth. Arles, Actes Sud, 2015, 270 pp., in Planning Perspectives, 33-2, 303-304.

2017
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Benjamin C. Fortna, ed., Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After. Leinden, Brill, 2016, 285 p., in International of Turkish Studies, 2017, 23/1-2, pp. 151-153.

- Rez.: Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2016, 347 pp, in The American Historical Review, 122-4, 2017, Pages 1349–1350.

- Confronting the Unsaid: Historical Research and the Critical Interpretation of the Present Wars and Crises in the Middle East and North Africa, in Maecenata Fondation (Ed.), Europe and the Mediterranean. Talking, Learning, Working and Living Together, Europa Bottom-Up, Arbeitspapiere zur Europäischen Zivilgesellschaft / European Civil Society Working Papers, Berlin, München, 24-31.

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Die Ränder Europas denken. Osmanisches Erbe, unsichtbare Grenzen und neue Festungen", in Franck Hofman, Markus Messling (eds.), Flucht Punkt. Das Mittelmeer und die europäische Krise, Berlin: Kadmos, 2017, 70-82.

-(mit Florian Riedler): Postosmanische Phantome im städtischen Raum Südosteuropas Anatoliens des Mittleren Ostens. In  Michael Esch, Béatrice von Hirschhausen (Eds.): Wahrnehmen – Erfahren – Gestalten: Phantomgrenzen und soziale Raumproduktion, Berlin, Wallstein, 187-213.

- Workers vs Machines: Ottoman Tunis between Industrialisation and Colonisation // Une mobilisation de travailleurs contre le machinisme: la Tunisie ottomane entre industrialisation et colonisation.  In International Development Policy // Revue internationale de politique de développement, 8, 37–60.



-Building and Deconstructing Authenticity in Aleppo. Heritage between Conservation, Transformation, Destruction and Re-Invention, in Christoph Bernhardt, Martin Sabrow, Achim Saupe (Hg.): Gebaute Geschichte. Historische Authentizität im Stadtraum, Götingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017, 206-228.

-Policing the Medina: Public Order in Tunis at the Time of the Tanzimat (1857–1864), in JOTSA Special Issue "Crime, Punishmend, and Social Control in the Late Ottoman Empire", Guest edited by Kent F. Schull, Robert Zens and Ufuk Adak, 2017, 4-1, pp.55-71.

-Anthropologie historique de la violence urbaine dans le monde arabe: Le Caire, Alep, Tunis (1797-1857)", in H. Amamou and M. Jerad (eds.), Echanger en Méditerranée. Recueil en hommage à Sadok Boubaker, Tunis, Latrach Editions, 345-366.

-The "‘Arab Spring" in Global Perspective: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010-2014), in S. Berger and H. Nehring (eds.), The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective, New-York, Palgrave, 677-702.

-Kosmopolitismus als Governance: Das Beispiel des osmanischen Reiches, in: Bernhard Gißibl, Isabella Löhr (eds.), Bessere Welten. Kosmopolitismus in den Geschichtswissenschaften, Campus: Frankfurt a.M., 2017, 317-342.

- Rez.: Kirfan Luna, World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism. Three Cities in the Middle East, in: Planning Perspectives, 2017, 32-3, p. 471-472.

-Rez.: Sibel Zandi Sayek, Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port (1840-1880), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 273 pp., in: Die Welt des Islam, 2017, 57, 130-133.

Rez.: Benjamin C. Fortna, ed. Childhood in the late Ottoman Empire and After, Leiden, Brill, 2016, 285 pp., in: International Journal of Turkish Studies, 23 (1&2), 2017, 151-153.

- Rez.: Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 2016, 347 pp.

2016
-Alger au temps du consul Hammeken – une ville ottomane en reconstruction in Torbjørn Ødegaard (ed.), Les correspondances de Ludolf Hammeken, le premier consul dano-norvégien à Alger (1746 - 1751), Alger, ENAG, 234p., 2016, 79-87

-Urban Open Spaces and the Revolutionary Events of 2010–2011 in Tunis: A Tentative Typology", in: Christoph Bernhardt (ed.), Städtische öffentliche Räume / Urban Public Spaces, Frantz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2016, 279-291.

-Cités Barbaresques, in: Dionigi Albera, Maryline Crivello, Mohamed Tozzi (eds.), Dictionnaire de la Méditerranée, Actes Sud, 2016, 249-254.

- Historische Perspektiven auf den Maghreb, in: APuZ 33-34/2016, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn, 2016, 4-10.

-Rez.: Susan Gilson Miller, A History of Modern Morocco, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 306pp, in:  Islamic Africa vol 7, 2016, 124-126

- Well-Managed Cities: Old Regime Urban Planning Practices in Ottoman North-Africa and their Reform during the Tanzimat Era, in: Carlos Nunes Silva (ed.), Urban Planning in North Africa, London, Routledge, 2016, 3-30.

- Retour à Alexandrie: une communauté citadine avant Ilbert?, in: Leila Dakhli, Vincent Lemire (eds.), Etudier en liberté les mondes méditerranéens: mélanges offerts à Robert Ilbert, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016, 201-207.

- Challenging the Ottoman Pax Urbana: Intercommunal Clashes in 1857 Tunis, in: Nelida Fuccaro (ed.), Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2016, 95-108.

-Rez.: Zohra Hakimi: Alger, politiques urbaines (1846-1958), Planning Perspectives, 2016, 31-1, 2016, 140-142.

2015
-Rez.: Piri Reis cartographe de l'Algérie, La géographie (revue de la société française de géographie), 2015, n.1559, 14-21.

- Rez.: Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia (1881-1938), Law and History Review, 33-4, 2015, 1013-1015.

- (mit Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, eds.): Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 334 S.

- Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800. Insurrection in Cairo, in: Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 29-51.

- The Nature of Jewish Spaces in Ottoman Algiers, in: Alina Gromova, Felix Heinert, Sebastian Voigt (eds.), Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context, Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2015, 83-98.

- L'empire ottoman en Afrique: perspectives d'histoire critique, Cahiers d'Histoire. Revue d'Histoire Critique, n.128, 2015, 59-70

- Ο Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης μεταξύ του παλαιού καθεστώτος, των οθωμανικών μεταρρυθμίσεων και της μετάβασης από την αυτοκρατορία στο εθνικό κράτος: Ερωτήσεις και προοπτικές έρευνας " [The Municipality of Salonica between Old Regime, the Ottoman Reforms and the Transition from Empire to Nation State: Questions and Research Perspectives]. In: Dimitris Keridis (ed.), ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ, ΜΙΑ ΠΟΛΗ ΣΕ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΣΗ, 1912-2012, Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2015, 99-113.

- Rez.: Noémie Lévy-Aksu, Ordre et désordres dans l'Istanbul Ottomane (1879-1909), Paris, 2013 in Histoire Urbaine, 2015

- Rez.: Sharif, Malek: Imperial norms and local realities. The Ottoman municipal laws and the municipality of Beirut (1860-1908), Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2014, H-Soz-Kult, 26.6.2015.

- Rez.: Jean-Claude David and Thierry Boissière (eds.), Alep et ses territoires. Fabrique et politique d'une ville 1868-2011, Planning Perspectives, 30-2 (2015), 298-300,

- Diversity and the nature of the Ottoman Empire from the construction of the imperial old regime to the challenges of modernity, in: Steven Vertovec (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies, London: Routledge, 2015, 125-131.

2014
- (ed. mit Michel Espagne,  Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn): Silvestre de Sacy. Le projet européen d’une science orientaliste, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2014, 356 S.

- Michel Espagne, Nora Lafi et Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn:  Introduction, in: Michel Espagne,  Nora Lafi, Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (eds.): Silvestre de Sacy Le projet européen d’une science orientaliste,  Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2014, 3-13.

- Silvestre de Sacy et l'orientalisme italien: un autre rapport à la culture, in: Nora Lafi, Michel Espagne,  Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (eds.), Silvestre de Sacy. Le projet européen d’une science orientaliste, Editions du Cerf: Paris, 2014, 208-217.

- Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the Notion of Beauty between the “West” and the “Orient”, in: Nazan Maksudyan (ed.), Women and the City, Women in the City. A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History, Berghahn: New York, Oxford, 2014, 139-148.

- Rez.: B. Florin, O. Legros, N. Semmoud, F. Trouin (eds.), Marges urbaines et néolibéralisme en Méditerranée, Tours, 287 S., Planning Perspectives, 21-4 (2014), 586-588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2014.936131

- Rez.: Mohamed Ourfelli and Elise Voguet (eds.), Le monde rural dans l’Occident musulman médiéval, Aix-en-Provence, 2009 (REMMM 126), 313 S., Die Welt des Islams, 54 (2), 2014, 278-280.

-Rez.: Abdellatif R., Benhima Y., König D. and Ruchaud E. (eds.), Construire la Méditerranée, penser les transferts culturels. Approches historiographiques et perspectives de recherches, 2012, 195p. H-Soz-u-Kult, 23.05.2014.

- The Eighteenth Century in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire: Perspectives for a Global History, in: Matthias Middell (ed.), Cultural Transfers, Encounters and Connections in the Global 18th Century, Leipziger Universitätsverlag,  231-260.

- (ed. mit Ulrike Freitag): Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between cosmopolitanism and conflict, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, 238 S.

- (und Ulrike Freitag): Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and conflicts: changes and challenges in Ottoman urban governance, in: Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi (eds.), Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between cosmopolitanism and conflict, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, Abingdon: Routledge, 2014, 1-17.

- The 1819 Aleppo Riots and the Limits of the Imperial Urban Domestication of Factional Violence, in: Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi (eds.), Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 2014, 58-75.

2013
- "In Alexandria: The New Cosmopolitan Reality", in: Meddeb (Abdelwahab) and Stora (Benjamin) (eds.), A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations from the Origins to Present Day, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013, 80-84.

- "The Municipality of Salonica between Old Regime, the Ottoman Reforms and the Transition from Empire to Nation State: Questions and Research Perspectives", Proceedings of the October 18-21, 2012 International Conference in Thessaloniki, Municipality of Thessaloniki.

- Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism and its Contemporary Revivals: A Critical Approach, New Geographies, in: Journal of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, n.5 (Mediterranean, Antonio Petrov guest editor), 325-334.

- Violence factieuse, enjeux internationaux et régulation ottomane de la conflictualité urbaine à Tripoli d’Occident entre 18 ème et 19 ème siècles, in: Rémi Dewière and Güneş Işıksel (eds.), Tripoli, port de mer, port de désert, Hypothèse; 395-404.

- Rez.: Sadria, Modjtaba, Homogenisation of representations: Geneva, Aga Khan Development Network, 2012, 230 p., in Planning Perspectives, 28-4, 2013, 665-667

- Rez.: A. Anastasopoulos (Hg.), The Eastern Mediterranean under Ottoman Rule: Crete, 1645-1840, Rethymno: Crete University Press, 2008, 411 S.” Die Welt des Islams 53(1), 108-11.

- Rez.: C. L. Wilkins, Forging urban solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010, 323 S., Comparativ 23(2), 129-33.

- Rez.: M. Annaloro und G. Lange, Alexandrie: une architecture ottomane, Marseille: Éditions Parenthèses, 2011, 140 S., Planning Perspectives 28(3), 499-501.

- Rez.: Bodenstein, Ralph, Villen in Beirut. Wohnkultur und sozialer Wandel (1860-1930), Petersberg, Germany: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2012, 397p., Planning Perspectives 28(3), 501–502.

2012
- "L'Algérie dans l'historiographie allemande depuis 1945", Al-Mawaqi: Revue des études et des recherches sur la société et l'histoire, n.7, 35-57.

- Etre juif dans l’Algérie ottomane, in: Anne Hélène Hoog (ed.) Juifs d’Algérie, Paris, Flammarion / Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, 69-81.

- La gouvernance ottomane des équilibres locaux: le rôle du bureau central des pétitions à Istanbul et l’usage de ses archives, in: Archives nationales de Tunisie – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CERES) (ed.),
Les archives, la société et les Sciences humaine, Actes du colloque international tenu à Tunis de 22 au 24 février 2010. In Cahier de CERES. Série Histoire n° 21, Tunis, 369 p.

- Al-hadâtha wal-idâra al-hadâriyya fî Misr al-'uthmâniyya. As'ila wa tafsîrât (Modernity and Administration in Ottoman Egypt: Questions and Research Perspectives) in: Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim (ed.), Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography of Egypt, in Honour of Nelly Hanna, Cairo: Gebo, 263-273.

- "A.I. Silvestre de Sacy", in: Coeli Fitzpatrick, DwayneTunstall (eds.), Orientalist Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 366, Detroit: Gale Bruccoli Clark Layman, 254-260.

- "Ettore Rossi" in: Fitzpatrick (Coeli) and Tunstall (Dwayne) (eds.), Orientalist Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 366, Detroit: Gale Bruccoli Clark Layman, 250-253.

- "Mu'ammar al-Kâdhâfi (1942-2011)", Universalia 2012 (Yearly Supplement to Encyclopedia Universalis), 404-405.

- Rez.: Ita Heinze-Greenberg, Europa in Palästina. Die Architekten des zionistischen Projekts (1902-1923), Zürich: GTA Verlag, 2011, 239 S., Planning Perspectives, n.27-3, 486-487.

2011
- Un parcours scientifique: essai d'égo-histoire, Université Aix-Marseille I, 2011, 48 S.

- (Guest editor, with Ulrike Freitag): Daily Life and Family in an Ottoman Urban Context: Historiographical Stakes and New Research Perspectives; Special issue The History of the Family, 2011 (16-2, 79-182)

- Cronache civiche e microcosmi cittadini : Tripoli nell’Ottocento, in: Paolo, Militello (ed.), Il Mediterraneo delle città, Milano : Franco Angeli Editore, 2011, 233-240.

- Rez.: Stefan Weber Damascus: Ottoman modernity and urban transformation (1808-1918), in: Planning Perspectives, 1466-4518, Volume 26, Issue 1, 119–150

- (mit Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Florian Riedler, eds.), The City
in the Ottoman Empire. Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity
,
London: Routledge, 272 p.
Rez.: Nenad Stefanov in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 25.10.2012

- (mit Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Florian Riedler): Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond, in: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler (eds.): The City in the Ottoman Empire Migration and the making of urban modernity, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 1-7.

- The Ottoman Urban Governance of Migrations and the Stakes of Modernity, in: Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler (ed.): The City in the Ottoman Empire Migration and the making of urban modernity, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 8-25.

- Goldziher vu d’Al-Azhar: ‘Abd Al-Jalil Shalabi et la critique de l’orientalisme européen, in: Céline Trautmann-Waller (ed.), Ignác Goldziher: un autre orientalisme?, Paris: Geuthner, 2011, 249-259.

- Rez.: Sawalha (Aseel), Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Post-War Arab City, Planning Perspectives 26:2 (2011), 338-340.

- ( O. Pliez and P. Rossi): "Libye", Encyclopaedia Universalis, 15 S.

- Rez.: Karen Barkey: Empire of Difference. The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, New York, 2008, Comparativ 21 (2011), 121-126.

- Petitions and Accomodating Urban Change in the Ottoman Empire, in: Elisabeth Özdalga, Sait Özervarlı, Feryal Tansuğ (eds.), Istanbul as seen from a distance. Centre and Provinces in the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, 2011, 73-82.

2010
- Laurent Charles Féraud: Artiste, Soldat, Historien et Diplomate, in:
Merlin, Bernard (ed.), Laurent Charles Féraud, Peintre et Témoin de la
Conquète de l’Algérie
, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, Editions Monelle Hayot, 2010.

- Biographie: Laurent Charles Féraud, une passion coloniale, in: Merlin,
Bernard (ed.), Laurent Charles Féraud, Peintre et Témoin de la Conquète de
l’Algérie, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau
, Editions Monelle Hayot, 2010.

- (mit Edhem Eldem and Muhammed Oualdi, Paris, La Sorbonne): Online Audio File Etre Ottoman. La constitution d’un sujet moral impérial. Dans le cadre de la saison turque, January 5-6, 2010, (REASOPO), http://www.fasopo.org/reasopo.htm.

- Rez.: Jens Hanssen Fin de Siècle Beirut. The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital,
in: Die Welt des Islams, Volume 50, Number 1, 2010, 163-168.

- Bilad, in: Topalov, Christian et al. (eds.), L'aventure des mots de la ville, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2010, 69-72.

2009
- Rez.: James Grehan. Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth‐Century Damascus. (Publications on the Near East.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 320. The American Historical Review, 114-5, December 2009, p. 1574–1576

- Rez.: Shirine Hamadeh. The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. (Publications on the Near East.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2008. Pp. xii, 350. The American Historical Review, 114-5, December 2009, 1574–1576

- "Microcosmes urbains et pluralité linguistique: pour une lecture
dynamiquede la relation entre espace, individu, et identité dans les
villes arabesde l'époque ottomane
" PDFLogo in Sociolinguistique urbaine et
développement durable urbain: Enjeux et pratiques dans les sociétés
francophones et nonfrancophones, Bastian (Sabine), Bulot (Thierry), Burr
(Elisabeth) (Eds.)(2009), 143-158.

- "Entre ottomanité, colonialisme et orientalisme: les racines ambiguës de
la modernité urbaine dans les villes du Maghreb (1830-1960)
" PDFLogo in
Frankreichund Frankophonie: Kultur Sprache Medien: La France et la
Francophonie :culture langue médias, Bastian (Sabine) et Trouilloud
(Franck) (Eds.)(2009), 143-162.

- Rez.: André Raymond, Tunis sous les Mouradites. La ville
et ses habitants au xviie siècle, Tunis, Cérès, 2006, 338 p., in Cahiers
d'Histoire. Revue d'Histoire Critique, http://chrhc.revues.org/index1369.html

- Rez.: Weintritt, Otfried: Arabische Geschichtsschreibung in den arabischen Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches (16.-18. Jahrhundert). Schenefeld 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 1.7.2009.

- (mit Ulrike Freitag): Transnational History in Ottoman Perspective: The Experience of the Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar at ZMO Berlin, in Pierre-Yves Saunier and Akira Iriye (eds), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, New York, Palgrave, http://www.transnationalhistory.com:80/discussion.aspx?id=1622

- Muslim Networks. In: Pierre-Yves Saunier and Akira Iriye (eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History,New-York, Palgrave, 2009, 738-742.

2008
- Mediterranean Connections. The Circulation of Municipal Knowledge and Practices during the Ottoman Reforms, c. 1830-1910. In: Saunier (Pierre-Yves) and Ewen (Shane) (eds.), Another Global City. Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850-2000, New-York-Houndmills, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, 35-50.

2007
- (Compte-rendu critique) Alain Roussillon, Identité et modernité. Les voyageurs égyptiens au Japon (XIXe - XXe siècle), Actes Sud, 2005, 249p. In: geschichte transnational http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/id=8576.

2006
- Ghadamès cité-oasis entre empire ottoman et colonisation. In: Federico Cresti (ed.), La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico, Catania: Giuffrè Editore, 55-70.

- L’affaire ‘Alî al-Qarqânî (Tripoli 1872). In: (Abdelhamid) Hénia (ed.), Etre notable au Maghreb. Dynamique des configurations notabiliaires, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2006, 201-214.

- The Ottoman municipal reforms between Old Regime and modernity: Towards a new interpretative paradigm. In: 1st International Eminönü Symposium, Istanbul, Eminönü Belediyesi, 2006, 348-355.

- Eski Düzen ve çaýdašlık arasındaki Osmanlı Belediye Reformları: Yeni bir yorumsal örneýe doýru. In: 1st International Eminönü Symposium, Istanbul, Eminönü Belediyesi, 2006, 340-347.

- La fabrique des villes maghrébines entre héritages et réinterprétations: institutions, espaces, cultures. In (Nadir) Boumaza (ed.), Villes réelles, villes projetées. Fabrication de la ville au Maghreb, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2006.

- La Libia dalla conquista araba alla colonizzazione italiana, HAL-SHS CNRS Online Server, 2006, http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/13/93/01/PDF/NoraLafiAncona Maggio 06.pdf.

- (mit Ulrike Freitag): Cities compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and adjacent Regions, HAL-SHS CNRS Online Server, 2006http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/14/93/27/PDF/ Freitag-Lafi-Cosmopolitanism.pdf.

2005
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