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Authored Books

Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) Öteki Kürtler. Sömürge Irak’inda Yazidiler (Turkish translation of The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq). Istanbul: Boğaziçi Gösteri Sanatları Topluluğu.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2009) Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

Fuccaro, Nelida (1999) The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq. London: I.B. Tauris.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. (2016) Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. (2015) The Middle East in London / Iraq: People and Heritage. London: The London Middle East Institute, SOAS.

Fuccaro, Nelida, Freitag, Ulrike, Ghrawi, Claudia and Lafi, Nora, eds. (2015) Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. Oxford; New York: Berghahn. (Space and Place)

Fuccaro, Nelida and Hakimian, Hassan, eds. (2014) The Middle East in London / Oil - Past, Present and Future. London: The London Middle East Institute, SOAS.

Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. (2013) Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Thematic issue in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 33/1, 2013)

Book Chapters

Biglari, Mattin (2023) 'Making Oil Men: Expertise, Discipline and Subjectivity in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s Training Schemes.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida and Limbert, Mandana, (eds.), Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 221-248.

Vali, Murtaza, Rojo Jimenez, Maria Esperanza, Biglari, Mattin, Fuccaro, Nelida, Hindelang, Laura and Sohrabi, Sanaz (2022) 'Petromobilities in the Global South.' In: Karlsen, Anne Szefer and Nyman, Helga, (eds.), Experiences of Oil. Trondheim: Museumsforlaget, pp. 50-71.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2016) 'Dissecting Moments of Unrest: Twentieth-Century Kirkuk.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida, (ed.), Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 169-188.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2016) 'Urban Life and Questions of Violence.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida, (ed.), Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 3-22.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2015) 'Knowledge at the Service of the British Empire: The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia.' In: Brandell, Inga, Carlson, Maria and Cetrez, Önver, (eds.), Borders and the Changing Boundaries of Knowledge. Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, pp. 18-34. (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Transactions, Vol. 22)

Fuccaro, Nelida (2015) 'Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida, Freitag, Ulrike, Ghrawi, Claudia and Lafi, Nora, (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. Oxford; New York: Berghahn, pp. 222-242.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2015) 'Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions, and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezfoul.' In: Freitag, Ulrike, Fuccaro, Nelida, Ghrawi, Claudia and Lafi, Nora, (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 91-110.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2014) 'Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf.' In: Potter, Lawrence G., (ed.), The Persian Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 23-46.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) 'The Ottoman Frontier in Kurdistan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.' In: Woodhead, Christine, (ed.), The Ottoman World. London: Routledge, pp. 237-250. (Routledge Worlds)

Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'Pearl Towns and early Oil Cities: Migration and Integration in the Arab Coast of the Persian Gulf.' In: Freitag, Ulrike, Furhmann, Malte, Lafi, Nora and Riedler, Florian, (eds.), Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond. London: Routledge, pp. 99-116.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2008) 'Between imara, empire and oil: Saudis in the frontier society of the Persian Gulf.' In: Al-Rasheed, Madawi, (ed.), Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Frontiers. London: Hurst, pp. 39-64.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2005) 'Mapping the Transnational Community: Persians and the Space of the City in Bahrain, c. 1869-1937.' In: Al-Rasheed, Madawi, (ed.), Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 39-58.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2004) 'Minorities and Ethnic Mobilisation: The Kurds in Northern Iraq and Syria.' In: Meouchy, N. and Sluggett, P., (eds.), The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives. Leiden: Brill, pp. 579-595.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'Kurds and Kurdish Nationalism in Mandatory Syria: Politics, Culture and Identity.' In: Vali, A., (ed.), Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism. Costa Mesa, US: Mazda, pp. 191-217.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'Tribes, Religions and State in Early Modern Iraq: the case of the Yazidi Kurds.' In: Faleh, Abdul-Jabar and Hosham, Dawood, (eds.), Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East. London: SAQI.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'Tunisia in the British Archives: the Public Record Office.' In: Temimi, A and Omri, M. S., (eds.), Tunisia in the British Archives: the Public Record Office. Foundation Temimi pour la Recherche Scientifique et l'Information, Zaghouan (Tunisia), pp. 97-103.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1997) 'Die Kurden Syriens: Anfänge der nationalen Mobilisierung unter französischen Herrschaft.' In: Borck, C., Savelsberg, A. and Hajo, S., (eds.), Ethnizität, Nationalismus, Religion und Politik in Kurdistan. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 64-70.

Journal Article

Fuccaro, Nelida (2013) 'Shaping the Urban Life of Oil in Bahrain; Consumerism, Leisure and Public Communication in Manama and in the Oil camps, 1932-1960s.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 33 (1). pp. 59-74.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2013) 'Urban Studies in the Arabian Peninsula: Six Thoughts on the Field.' Arabian Humanities (2).

Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'The Making of Gulf Ports Before Oil.' Liwa. Journal of the National Centre for Documentation and Research, 2 (3). pp. 19-32.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2004) 'Indigenous State Traditions and Urbanism in the Islands of Bahrain, 1602-1932.' Eurasian Studies, 3 (2). pp. 245-63.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2003) 'Ethnicity and the City: the Kurdish Quarter of Damascus between Ottoman and French Rule, c. 1724-1946.' Urban History, 30 (2). pp. 206-224.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'The Cities in the Gulf: a Challenge to Modernity?' Eurorient: Special issue - Les Medinas en Peril, 9. pp. 64-70.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2001) 'Visions of the City: Urban Studies on the Gulf.' Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 35 (2). pp. 175-188.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2000) 'Understanding the Urban History of Bahrain.' Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 17 (2). pp. 49-81.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1999) 'Islam and Urban Space: Ma’tams in Bahrain before Oil.' ISIM Newsletter, 3. p. 12.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1999) 'Communalism and the State in Iraq: the Yazidi Kurds (c. 1869-1940).' Middle Eastern Studies, 35 (2). pp. 1-26.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1998) 'The Kurds of Syria (in Kurdish).' Havibun, 2 (3). pp. 74-99.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1997) 'Ethnicity, State Formation and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: the Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29 (4). pp. 559-580.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1995) 'The Kurds of Jabal Sinjar (in Arabic).' al-Thaqafah al-Jadidah = الثقافة الجديدة, 265 (8-9). pp. 89-100.

Fuccaro, Nelida (1993) 'A 17th century travel account on the Yazidis: implications for a socio-religious history.' Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale". Sezione orientale, 53 (3). pp. 241-253.

Book Reviews

Fuccaro, Nelida (2014) 'Review of Enemy on the Euphrates: the British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge.' BBC History Magazine, 15 (9). pp. 70-71.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2012) 'Review of 'The Persian Gulf in History' by Lawrence G. Potter.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (2). pp. 395-396.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2012) 'Review of The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone by Janet Klein.' Middle Eastern Studies, 48 (3). pp. 483-485.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) 'Review of Eugene Rogan,'The Arabs: A History'.' BBC History Magazine, 12 (5). p. 71.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) 'Review of Yasser Elsheshtawy (ed.), 'Planning Middle Eastern Cities. An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalising World' Planning Middle Eastern Cities. An urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalising World. London: Routledge, 2004, 210pp.' Urban History, 38 (1). pp. 203-204.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'Review of 'Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa' by Jonathan Miran.' The American Historical Review, 115 (5). pp. 1558-1559.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'Review of Peter Sluglett ed., 'The Urban Social History of the Middle East 1750-1950'.' The Middle East Journal, 64 (3). pp. 499-500.

Fuccaro, Nelida (2009) 'The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj. Merchants, Rulers and British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf.' Reviews in History, 726 .

Fuccaro, Nelida (2009) 'Review of 'A Companion to the History of the Modern Middle East' edited by Youssef Choueiri.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72 (2). pp. 396-397.