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Najwa al-Qattan

Najwa al-Qattan is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her areas of research include: the Jews and Christians of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman sharia courts, and Syria and Lebanon in the Great War. Her articles have appeared in several journals and edited volumes, including IJMES and CSSH. icon

Syria’s Wartime Famine @100: “Martyrs of the Grass”

By Najwa al-Qattan

In the days leading up to the Muslim holiday of the Feast of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha) in October 2013, several Syrian clerics issued a fatwa ...

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