Dana Sajdi
Chained: Orality, Authority and History
Dana Sajdi is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Boston College. She has held fellowships at the Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (2014-2015), the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul (2010-2011), and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2006-2007). She is the author of The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th-Century Ottoman Levant (Stanford University Press, 2013), and the editor of Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the 18th Century (IB Tauris, 2008). A Turkish translation of the latter has appeared as Osmanlı Laleri, Osmanlı Kahvehaneleri (Koç University Press, 2014).
