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Social Sciences in the Middle East: Community building in an embattled region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2015

Seteney Shami
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 52 , May 2015 , pp. 135 - 153
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2 General İsmail Berkok, Tarihte Kafkasya (İstanbul: İstanbul Matbaası, 1958).

3 She is referring to the more than 70 left-leaning university professors who were fired under Martial Law No. 1402 in 1983, in the wake of the 1980 military coup.

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5 Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss, eds., Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge (under contract with NYU Press).

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