Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community

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2016-08-01

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Kuşçu Bonnenfant, Işık

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Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science, History

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47126

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743816000581

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I. Kuşçu Bonnenfant, “Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, pp. 592–594, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47126.