'Conflict in Cities' is pleased to announce Professor Salim Tamari's lecture, entitled "WWI and the Remaking of Arab-Turkish Identity after Galipoli" in Cambridge on 27 October 2008 at 5pm (download poster below for details). Professor Tamari is spending two months in Cambridge as the Eric Lane Visiting Fellow at Clare College. The lecture is co-hosted by the
Centre of Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge. Further sponsored lectures and seminars to be held in Cambridge until the end of November will be announced in due course.

Salim Tamari is director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies and professor of sociology at Birzeit University. Professor Tamari is the editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. He is also the author of several works on urban culture, political sociology, biography and social history, and the social history of the Eastern Mediterranean. Recent publications include: Jerusalem 1948 (2001); Ottoman Jerusalem (2002); Mandate Jerusalem in the Memoirs of Wasif Jawahariyyeh (with Issam Nassar, 2005); Pilgrims, Lepers, and Stuffed Cabbage: Essays on the Cultural History of Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem (editor) (IJS, 2005); Year of the Locust: WWI and the End of the Ottoman Era (2007); Mountain Against the Sea: Studies in Palestinian Society and Culture (UC Press; 2008).

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