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Julia Elyachar

Julia Elyachar is associate professor of anthropology at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. She is author of Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2005); coeditor of Thinking Infrastructures (Emerald, 2019); and author of “Semi-Civilized: An Anthropology of Extraterritoriality and the Commons” (under review). icon

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From Versailles to the War on Terror

By Julia Elyachar

The status of the Ottoman Empire and its extraterritorial treaties were left in violent limbo at Versailles. This impacts the world to this day.

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