Date: Wednesday 5 October 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Room 9.04, Tower Two
Speakers: Dr Rasmus Christian Elling, Professor Ulrike Freitag and Dr Nelida Fuccaro
Chair: Professor Fran Tonkiss

Nelida Fuccaro launches her edited book, with two of the contributors to the volume, exploring violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. The essays included in this volume reflect the diversity of Middle Eastern urbanism from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, from the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad to the provincial towns of Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil settlements of Dhahran and Abadan. In reconstructing the violent pasts of cities, new vistas on modern Middle Eastern history are opened, offering alternative and complementary perspectives to the making and unmaking of empires, nations, and states.

Nelida Fuccaro teaches modern Middle Eastern history at SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on urban history, the history of oil and violence, ethnicity, nationalism and frontier societies.

Ulrike Freitag is a historian of the modern Middle East and the director of Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin as well as professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Rasmus Christian Elling is Associate Professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, where he teaches Middle East Studies as well as Global Urban Studies.

Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Cities Programme. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology.

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