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Chaired by Prof Ulrike Freitag and Dr Nora LafiAnnual Theme 2013/14: The City and its MarginsAffiche : ZMO Ottoman_Seminar_2013_14_webNovember 18th, Introduction:The City and its Margins: historiography and research perspectivesby Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi (both Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin)December 9thNaomi Davidson (University of Ottawa / EUME-Fellow 2013- 2014 at ZMO Berlin):Urban Coexistence and its Margins: Muslim-Jewish Relationships in the French MediterraneanJanuary 13thMichelle Campos (University of California, Gainesville):Operation Muharram: Communal Boundaries and Urban Unmixing in Ottoman and Mandatory JerusalemJanuary 27thUlrike Freitag (ZMO Berlin):A wall marking the border: urban Jeddah and its marginsandNora Lafi (ZMO Berlin):The marginalization of the centre: The Tunis medina between patrimonialization and abandon February 10th,Mohamed Elshahed (NYU / EUME-Fellow 2013-2014 at ZMO Berlin):From Cairo to the urban margins of Egypt: centralization, local administration and developmentalism 1945-1965April 28Robert Gleave (Institut of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter):Violence on the Margins: Locating punishment in late-medieval fiqhMay 12thWendy Pullan (Center for Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge):The migration of frontiers in contested citiesMay 26thSanaa Alimia (ZMO Berlin):At the Margins of Urban Pakistan: The question of Afghan refugeesJune 16thAndré Chappatte (ZMO Berlin):Exploring the city's margins: night life in two small towns of Muslim West AfricaJune 30thWai Weng Hew (ZMO Berlin):From Margin to Centre: Muslim Gated Communities in Contemporary Sub-urban IndonesiaJuly 14thAli Sipahi (University of Michigan):When the Margin Becomes the Centre: Suburbanization in the Ottoman EastThe Urban Studies Seminar is a joint activity of the Zentrum Moderner Orient(ZMO) and 'Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe' (EUME) aresearch program at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. It is part of theEUME research field, « Cities Compared ». The seminar aims at presenting anddiscussing ongoing research of scholars working on cities in regions with Muslimsocieties and an emphasis on Urban Studies in a comparative perspective