This volume is one of the most important outcomes of an ongoing research project (BORDER) on borders and state formation in the post-Ottoman Middle East, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and hosted at the History Department at the University of Neu..
Jordi Tejel and Ramazan Hakkı Öztan
Jordi Tejel is a Research Professor in contemporary history at the University of Neuchâtel. His main research interests are nationalism, minorities, borders, and state formation processes in the Middle East. Since 2017, he is leading a European Research Council research project on the borderlands of the interwar Middle East. His books and edited volumes include Syria’s Kurds. History, Politics and Society (Routledge, 2009), Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (World Scientific Press, 2012), La question kurde: Passé et présent (L’Harmattan, 2014), and Les Kurdes en 100 questions (Tallandier, 2018). He has published in journals such as Journal of Borderlands Studies, Iranian Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Studies, European Journal of Turkish Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is currently preparing a monograph on the Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi borderlands in the interwar period.
Ramazan Hakkı Öztan is Assistant Professor of History at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He completed his PhD in May 2016 at the University of Utah and was a postdoctoral researcher in a European Research Council project at the University of Neuchâtel, working with Jordi Tejel on the borders of the interwar Middle East. He has published articles in Past and Present, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, and Journal of Migration History. He also co-edited with Alp Yenen Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries, and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires (Edinburgh, 2021).