Middle Eastern Studies Program, Historical Studies Program, and Africana Studies Program Present
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 203
6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Mostafa Minawi
Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University
As the inter-imperial competition for territorial expansion in Africa heated up in the last 20 years of the 19th century, Istanbul devised a complex strategy that allowed it to give its imperial counterparts a run for their money. This talk will focus on one aspect of this strategy, which involved building a partnership with the local power brokers in the Eastern Sahara and the Lake Chad Basin.Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University
Mostafa Minawi is Assistant Professor of History and the Director of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative (OTSI) at Cornell University. He is currently a visiting research fellow at the Remarque Institute, NYU. His book, The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and The Hijaz, will be published by Stanford University Press in May 2016.
For more information, call 845-758-6265, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 203