Mostafa Minawi (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Red Sea Basin and the Horn of Africa at the End of the 19th Century
Cornell University
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Mostafa Minawi completed several projects during his fellowship period:
- He drafted a chapter from his upcoming book, A Global History of Jerusalem Rooftop: The Geopolitics of Imperialism from Istanbul to Addis Ababa
- He wrote a chapter for an edited volume, “Microhistory with a Small ‘m’: Demi-microhistory, Quasi-microhistory, and Experiential History of the Middle East,” which is forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Microhistory, edited by Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson, Deivy Carneiro, and Thomas V. Cohen
- He cowrote the article, “An Early 20th Century Arab-Ottoman Imperialist’s Take on Europeans and Africans,” for the Wilson Center in a forthcoming special section titled Global Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
- He also wrote the article, “Narrating Whiteness: A Case of Early 20th-Century Ottoman Ethnoracialization,” which is currently under review for a special issue, titled “Whiteness Beyond the West,” for the History Workshop Journal