Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt. He is currently co-editing a book on the press in the Middle East and on a monograph on a history of the prison in the Middle East. Sossie Kasbarian was awarded her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has taught at SOAS, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and the University of Edinburgh. She is currently Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Lancaster. Sossie is co-editor of the special issue of Patterns of Prejudice entitled Civil Society rapprochement and high politics stalemate: Mapping the future of Armenian-Turkish relations in the context of the wider Middle East (with Kerem Öktem, 2014), as well as a number of articles in the field of Diaspora Studies.

• IntroductionAnthony Gorman and Sossie KasbarianPart I. Post-Ottoman Reconfigurations1. ‘Model Citizens or a fifth column?’Haris Theodorelis-Rigas2. Ottoman-Local Elites as Diaspora CommunitiesEhud R. Toledano3. Ossetians in Ottoman and Republican TurkeyGeorgy Chochiev4. The Italians of EgyptAnthony GormanPart II. Exile, ‘Return’ and Resistance5. Subversive Tourism? Diaspora Armenians visiting TurkeyZeynep Turan and Anny Bakalian6. A Story of Unfulfilled DesiresMaria HoltPart III: Community in Host States – Establishing new homes7. The ‘Others’ Within: Armenians in CyprusSossie Kasbarian8. Worthy lives in unworthy conditionsMay FarahPart IV: New Diasporas9. Malayalee Migrants and Translocal Kerala Politics in the GulfM.H. Ilias10. ‘I need hope, but all my hopes need money'Elisa Pasucci11. Home in Lebanese Diaspora LiteratureJumana Bayeh

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt. He is currently co-editing a book on the press in the Middle East and on a monograph on a history of the prison in the Middle East. Sossie Kasbarian was awarded her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has taught at SOAS, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and the University of Edinburgh. She is currently Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Lancaster. Sossie is co-editor of the special issue of Patterns of Prejudice entitled Civil Society rapprochement and high politics stalemate: Mapping the future of Armenian-Turkish relations in the context of the wider Middle East (with Kerem Öktem, 2014), as well as a number of articles in the field of Diaspora Studies.

• IntroductionAnthony Gorman and Sossie KasbarianPart I. Post-Ottoman Reconfigurations1. ‘Model Citizens or a fifth column?’Haris Theodorelis-Rigas2. Ottoman-Local Elites as Diaspora CommunitiesEhud R. Toledano3. Ossetians in Ottoman and Republican TurkeyGeorgy Chochiev4. The Italians of EgyptAnthony GormanPart II. Exile, ‘Return’ and Resistance5. Subversive Tourism? Diaspora Armenians visiting TurkeyZeynep Turan and Anny Bakalian6. A Story of Unfulfilled DesiresMaria HoltPart III: Community in Host States – Establishing new homes7. The ‘Others’ Within: Armenians in CyprusSossie Kasbarian8. Worthy lives in unworthy conditionsMay FarahPart IV: New Diasporas9. Malayalee Migrants and Translocal Kerala Politics in the GulfM.H. Ilias10. ‘I need hope, but all my hopes need money'Elisa Pasucci11. Home in Lebanese Diaspora LiteratureJumana Bayeh

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt. He is currently co-editing a book on the press in the Middle East and on a monograph on a history of the prison in the Middle East. Sossie Kasbarian was awarded her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has taught at SOAS, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and the University of Edinburgh. She is currently Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Lancaster. Sossie is co-editor of the special issue of Patterns of Prejudice entitled Civil Society rapprochement and high politics stalemate: Mapping the future of Armenian-Turkish relations in the context of the wider Middle East (with Kerem Öktem, 2014), as well as a number of articles in the field of Diaspora Studies.

• IntroductionAnthony Gorman and Sossie KasbarianPart I. Post-Ottoman Reconfigurations1. ‘Model Citizens or a fifth column?’Haris Theodorelis-Rigas2. Ottoman-Local Elites as Diaspora CommunitiesEhud R. Toledano3. Ossetians in Ottoman and Republican TurkeyGeorgy Chochiev4. The Italians of EgyptAnthony GormanPart II. Exile, ‘Return’ and Resistance5. Subversive Tourism? Diaspora Armenians visiting TurkeyZeynep Turan and Anny Bakalian6. A Story of Unfulfilled DesiresMaria HoltPart III: Community in Host States – Establishing new homes7. The ‘Others’ Within: Armenians in CyprusSossie Kasbarian8. Worthy lives in unworthy conditionsMay FarahPart IV: New Diasporas9. Malayalee Migrants and Translocal Kerala Politics in the GulfM.H. Ilias10. ‘I need hope, but all my hopes need money'Elisa Pasucci11. Home in Lebanese Diaspora LiteratureJumana Bayeh