#  Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East 

 



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 **February 15, 2024** 

 04:00PM - 05:00PM EST 

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 **William James Hall Room 105, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 [Adam Mestyan](https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Adam.Mestyan), Associate Professor of History, Duke University

 In this talk, I argue that the concepts of new imperial history better describe and explain state-making among the post-Ottoman Arab peoples than the old national, imperial, colonial, and postcolonial vocabularies. First, I introduce the main terms in my recent monograph, *Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking The Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East* (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), such as recycling empire, governing without sovereignty, local states, imperial constitutionalism, and modular (federative) state-making. Next, I apply this vocabulary to the story of the State of Syria's formation in the 1920s under the League of Nations class “A” French mandate.

 Adam Mestyan is currently a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Associate Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of *Arab Patriotism* (2017), *Primordial History* (2021), and *Modern Arab Kingship* (2023), and the lead PI of the *Digital Cairo* and *Jara’id* digital humanities projects.



 

 



 

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