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Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the
Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the
diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary
recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the
misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There
he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family
connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a
unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into
sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods,
the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from
its streets - soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim
Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local,
regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional
wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
"Year of the Locust" captures in page-turning detail the end of the
Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the
diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary
recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the
misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There
he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family
connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a
unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into
sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods,
the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from
its streets - soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim
Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local,
regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional
wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
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