Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire
Ottoman History Podcast
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Azum Zaddis: A Family Archive
The hardest thing was to find the descendants because they changed their name on the Turkish side and I did that back in 2008, 2009. Both share the pride in the imperial past, there is this notion of we were the ruling elite, very much shared on both sides but they have very different versions of how they ended up where they ended up. And that memory is actually a huge part of what you present in the book because it's about how the family remembers at different generations of it.
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