Profile

Benjamin Fortna

Professor, Roshan Persian and Iranian Studies - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies | Director, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Sch Middle E/N African Studies

Courses(2)

Turkey: Culture, Power and History
History of the Middle East: Modern Middle East

Student Thesis/Dissertation(5)

Tenuous “Ideal”: Analysis of Peasantism and Health in the Ülkü Periodical (1933–1936)
2023·masters
Uncovering the Ignored: Corporeality, Sexuality, and Gender in Children's Magazines in the Ottoman Empire, 1869 - 1918
2023·doctoral
Post-World War I Navigation of Imperialism, Identity, and Nationalism in the 1919-1920 Memoir Entries of Ottoman Army Officer Taha Al-Hāshimī
2019·masters
Struggle and Survival of American Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom
2018·masters
(Self)Censorship, Media Repression, and the Trajectory of Citizen Journalism in Turkey: The Evolution of 140journos
2018·masters

Books(1)

The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent
2016

Profile

Benjamin Fortna

Courses(2)

Turkey: Culture, Power and History

History of the Middle East: Modern Middle East

Student Thesis/Dissertation(5)

Tenuous “Ideal”: Analysis of Peasantism and Health in the Ülkü Periodical (1933–1936)

Uncovering the Ignored: Corporeality, Sexuality, and Gender in Children's Magazines in the Ottoman Empire, 1869 - 1918

Post-World War I Navigation of Imperialism, Identity, and Nationalism in the 1919-1920 Memoir Entries of Ottoman Army Officer Taha Al-Hāshimī

Struggle and Survival of American Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom

(Self)Censorship, Media Repression, and the Trajectory of Citizen Journalism in Turkey: The Evolution of 140journos

Books(1)

The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent

News(4)

A Woman's Dying Wish Leads to Returning a Piece of History

UA Receives $1M for Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor of Persian Language

UA Professor Writes Book About Ottoman Special Agent Esref Bey

Arabic Becomes One of UA's Newest Degree Programs