“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

China in British Education: The Natzler Report in Historical Perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2023). China in British Education: The Natzler Report in Historical Perspective. Asian Affairs, 54(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2023.2213118

Michael Natzler's report for the Higher Education Policy Institute of March 2022 entitled “Understanding China: The Study of China and Mandarin in UK Schools and Universities” surveyed the provision of Chinese Studies in Britain since the Second Worl... Read More about China in British Education: The Natzler Report in Historical Perspective.

My Grandmother Drank the Qur’an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia (2021)
Journal Article
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021). My Grandmother Drank the Qur’an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia. CounterText, 7(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2021.0216

Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967 (2016)
Journal Article
Tsourapas, G. (2016). Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 43(3), 324-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2015.1102708

The Egyptian state’s policy of dispatching trained Egyptian professionals, primarily educational staff, across the Arab world rarely features in analyses of Egypt’s foreign policy under Gamal Abdel Nasser. This article relies primarily on newly decla... Read More about Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967.

The Ottoman Educational Legacy (2010)
Book Chapter
Fortna, B. (2010). The Ottoman Educational Legacy. In C. Kerslake, K. Öktem, & P. Robins (Eds.), Turkey's Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century (15-26). Palgrave Macmillan

Learning to Read in the late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic (2010)
Book
Fortna, B. (2010). Learning to Read in the late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230300415

An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showi... Read More about Learning to Read in the late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic.