I have studied political science at Ankara Univesity. Later, I did my masters on the modern history of the Middle East at the University of Texas at Austin. I was a visiting scholar at Bogazici, Bilkent University and EHESS. I studied at Damascus University for durign the Summer of 2008. Currently I am writing my dissertation titled "Politics of Alliance and Rivalry on the 19th-Century Ottoman-Iranian Frontier: The Case of Baban Principality and Sulaimaniya in Iraq, (1784-1851)."

"Images of Kurdish Women in 19th-Century Western Travelogues" in et.al, Kurdish Women, (Istanbul: Hakkari University Press, 2011)

History of Modern Middle East, Islamic History, Late Ottoman History and Historiography, Socio-Political History of Ottoman Iraq and Kurdistan, Modern Turkish History, Modern Iranian History; History of the Sufis, Wahhabis, and Shi’is

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Doctoral Candidate, Freiburg University