Nora Lafi is a French historian of Algerian origin, born in 1965 in Istres, near Marseilles. She is currently a researcher with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. She is a specialist of the history of the Ottoman Empire and specifically of Arab towns of North Africa and the Middle-East during the Ottoman period. She chairs, with Ulrike Freitag, the research field "Cities compared: cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and beyond", part of the EUME programme at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. She is co-founder and editor of H-Mediterranean (H-Net, Michigan State University). Nora Lafi is an expert in the following fields: History of the Ottoman Empire History of Libya, Tunisia and Algeria The notion of old regime Comparative history Urban Studies Middle-East.
Main publications edit
Monographies
Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 360p.
Une ville du Maghreb entre ancien régime et réformes ottomanes. Tripoli 1795-1911, Paris, 2002
Edited and Co-Edited Books
Understanding the City through its Margins, Abingdon, Routledge, 2017, 190p. (Ed. with U. Freitag and A. Chappatte)
Urban Violence in the Middle East, Oxford, Berghahn, 2015, 334p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, N. Fuccaro, C. Ghrawi)
Urban Governance Under the Ottomans, Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, 238p. (Ed. with U. Freitag)
The City in the Ottoman Empire, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 288p. (Ed. with U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, F. Riedler)
Municipalités Méditerranéennes, Berlin, K. Schwarz, 2005, 370p.