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Sharing Space in the Shadow of Confl ict
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Everyday Coexistence in the Post-Ottoman Space 1
Rebecca Bryant
Part I. Landscapes of Coexistence and Confl ict
Chapter 1. Sharing Traditions of Land Use and Ownership:
Considering the “Ground” for Coexistence and Confl ict in
Pre-modern Cyprus 41
Irene Dietzel
Chapter 2. Intersecting Religioscapes in Post-Ottoman Spaces:
Trajectories of Change, Competition, and Sharing of Religious
Spaces 59
Robert M. Hayden
Chapter 3. Cosmopolitanism or Constitutive Violence?
Th e Creation of “Turkish” Iraklio 86
Aris Anagnostopoulos
Chapter 4. Trade and Exchange in Nicosia’s Shared Realm:
Ermou Street in the 1940s and 1950s 107
Anita Bakshi
Part II. Performing Coexistence and Diff erence
Chapter 5. In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi’s
Alexandria Films 129
Deborah A. Starr
Chapter 6. Memory, Conviviality, and Coexistence: Negotiating
Class Diff erences in Burgazadası, Istanbul 157
Deniz Neriman Duru
Chapter 7. “If You Write Th is Tačno, It Will Be Točno!”:
Language Ideologies and Linguistic Practices in Postwar Bosnia
and Herzegovina 180
Azra Hromadžić
vi Contents
Part III. Negotiating Everyday Coexistence in the Shadow of Confl ict
Chapter 8. Th e Istanbul Armenians: Negotiating Coexistence 207
Sossie Kasbarian
Chapter 9. A Confl ict of Spaces or of Recognition? Co-presence
in Divided Jerusalem 238
Sylvaine Bulle
Chapter 10. Grounds for Sharing—Occasions for Confl ict:
An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Cohabitation and
Antagonism 258
Glenn Bowman
Index 276
Illustrations
Figure 2.1. Minaret on the fourteenth century St. Nicholas Church
in Famagusta, Cyprus, converted into a mosque after the Ottoman
conquest in the sixteenth century. Aya Sofya mosque until 1954,
then renamed Lala Mustafa Paşa Mosque (photo by Robert M.
Hayden, October 2011). 64
Figure 2.2. St. Nicholas Church, Chania, Crete. Venetian
fourteenth century Catholic church, converted into a mosque by
Ottomans in 1645, then into a Greek Orthodox church in 1918.
Note truncated minaret (photo by Robert M. Hayden, May 2015). 65
Figure 4.1. “View Near St. Sophia - Late 1950s.” Th e main
municipal market Pantapolio/Bandabulya appears in the
background. Photograph from Th e Press and Information Offi ce
Archive, 20C.151 (27), Ministry of the Interior, Republic of Cyprus. 117
Figure 4.2. A portion of the map created through discussions and
mapping sessions with the shopkeepers. Köprü Başı / Stavro Pazaro
was a major landmark in the city and many shopkeepers were able
to recall shops that once were located in this part of the city. 117
Figure 5.1. Chalom and cAbdu wake up together in bed.
Screenshot, Mistreated by Affl uence (1937). 130
Figure 5.2. Hilmy disguised as “Dr. Hilmy.” Screenshot, Doctor
Farahat (1935). 137
Figure 5.3. Hilmy disguised as “Mustafa,” with Nona. Screenshot,
Doctor Farahat (1935). 137
Figure 5.4. cAli climbs over Farahat to answer the telephone.
Screenshot, Doctor Farahat (1935). 139
Figure 5.5. Farahat and Umm Ahmad in bed. Screenshot,
Doctor Farahat (1935). 139
Figure 5.6. Nona and Tahiya in bed. Screenshot, Doctor Farahat
(1935). 140
viii List of Illustrations
Figure 5.7. Tahiya watches Nona undress. Screenshot, Doctor
Farahat (1935). 142
Figure 5.8. Chalom and cAbdu kiss. Screenshot, Mistreated by
Affl uence (1937). 148
Figure 5.9. Driver watches Chalom and cAbdu kiss. Screenshot,
Mistreated by Affl uence (1937). 149
Figure 7.1. Mostar Gymnasium (photo by Azra Hromadžić, June
2012). 187
Figure 9.1. Confrontation in Jerusalem: Mt. of Olives and East
Jerusalem (photo by Sylvaine Bulle). 239
Figure 9.2. East Jerusalem (photo by Sylvaine Bulle). 253
Acknowledgments
S
everal of the papers gathered here were originally presented at the
conference “Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of Coexis-
tence in the Post-Ottoman Sphere,” organized by the Peace Research
Institute Oslo’s Cyprus Centre, the Association for Historical Dialogue
and Research, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, with funding from
the Chrest Foundation, the National Bank of Greece, and the London
School of Economics Research on Southeast Europe Programme. We
are grateful to these funders, as well as to the PRIO Cyprus Centre for
its generous support of the book project.
Some portions of Azra Hromadžić’s chapter appeared in her mono-
graph, Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar
Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are thankful to the University of Pennsyl-
vania Press for permission to publish a revised ve rsion of this chapter.
