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ARE WE POST-FRANCOPHONE YET? – KAOUTAR HARCHI & LIA BROZGAL
La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews, New YorkKaoutar Harchi is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Musée du Quai Branly and visiting professor at NYU (French Literature, Culture and Thought and Institute of French Studies). A sociologist of culture, her work revolves around francophonie as an intellectual and social field and the trajectories of Algerian novelists who have obtained recognition in France. She is the author of Je […]
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Book Talk: “The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem” Jane Hathaway
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 255 Sullivan St., New YorkAbstract: Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East […]
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