Mostafa Minawi

Mostafa Minawi is an associate professor of history and the founder of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Diplomacy and Empire from the Sahara to the Hijaz (Stanford University Press, 2016) and Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, 2022). He has held several senior fellowships in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Currently, he is a fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where he is working on a book manuscript on Ottoman imperial claims to the Horn of Africa at the turn of the 20th century. His work focuses on Ottoman imperialism in Africa and the Middle East, paying special attention to the particularities of race, ethnicity, and belonging across the Levant and North Africa.