Dr. Tal Shuval

Updated: August 2007

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Personal

Telephone Tel: 972-9-7781407
Email E-mail: talsh@openu.ac.il

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Education

1974 The London Film School
1980-1984 B.A. (magna cum laude), Middle Eastern and African History, and History of The Land of Israel, Tel-Aviv University
1984-1987 M.A. Degree courses, The Aranne Graduate School of History, Tel-Aviv University
1987-1988 D.E.A. (Diplôme d'études Approfondies), Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence. Dissertation: Al-Zahra al-Nâ'ira, Introduction et traduction d'une chronique arabe du XVIIIe siècle (Al-Zahra al-Nâ'ira, Introduction and Translation of an Eighteenth-century Arab Chronicle).
1988-1994 Doctorat Régime Unique, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence. Dissertation: La Ville d'Alger vers la Fin du XVIIIe Siècle: Population et Cadre Urbain (The City of Algiers towards the End of the 18th Century: Population and Urban Framework). Awarded with Mention très honorable avec félicitations de jury.
1994-1995 Post-Doctoral Studies, Department of History of the Middle East, Ben-Gurion University

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Professional Experience

1994-1995 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of History of the Middle East, Ben-Gurion University
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
1994-1995 Lecturer, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University
2001 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel-Aviv University
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Ahva College
2002 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel-Aviv University
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Ahva College
2003 Scientific Editor, The History of The Contemporary Middle East, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History of the Middle East, University of Haifa
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Ahva College
2005 Scientific Editor, The History of The Contemporary Middle East, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
Visiting Lecturer, Sapir College
Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Ahva College

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Professional Activities

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Positions in Academic Administration

1996-1997 Member, Library Committee, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University
1997-1998 Head, Departmental Program for Outstanding B.A. Students, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University
1997-1998 Member, BA Studies Committee, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University
1998-1989 Organizer of Departmental Seminar, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University

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Non-Academic Professional Functions

1974-1980 Film Editor
1984-1987 Teacher, Tel-Aviv University Preparatory School for New Immigrants
1984-1987 Teacher, Kibbutz Shefayim Preparatory School
1985-1987 Research Assistant to Dr. Yossi Beilin while writing his book Roots of Israeli Industry (Jerusalem, 1987)

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Professional Consulting

1997 Co-organizer, Order in Anarchy: The Management of Urban Space and Society in the Islamic World, International Workshop, The Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University
1999 Referee, M.A. Thesis Proposal: French Jewry and the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa
1999 Member, Organizing Committee, Israel/Palestine: Past, Present, Future, The Humphrey Institute for Social Research
2001 Reader, M.A. Thesis: La Gardienne de son Frère: French Jewry and the Algerian War (1954-1962), Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa

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Courses Taught

  • The Great Arab Cities in the Ottoman Empire, B.A. course, University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University.

  • Introduction to the History of the Ottoman Empire, B.A. course, University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University.

  • Ottoman Algeria according to Algerian Chronicles, B.A. course, University of Haifa.

  • Introduction to the History of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century, B.A. course, Ben-Gurion University.

  • History of Cities in the Islamic World, B.A. pro-seminar, Ben-Gurion University.

  • Algeria under French Colonialism, B.A. pro-seminar, Ben-Gurion University.

  • Travel Literature as a Historical Source, B.A. seminar (in the framework of the Departmental Program for Outstanding Students), Ben-Gurion University.

  • Order in Anarchy: The Management of Urban Space and Society in the Islamic Middle East, M.A. Seminar, Ben-Gurion University.

  • Endowment Deeds and Probate Inventories as Historical Source: Ottoman Algeria in a Comparative Perspective, M.A. seminar, Ben-Gurion University.

  • Waqf in the Urban Space, M.A. seminar, Ben-Gurion University.

  • New Research into the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Algeria, M.A. seminar, University of Haifa.

  • French Colonialism in the Maghrib, M.A. seminar, University of Haifa.

  • The Emergence of the Palestinian National Movement, B.A. course, Ahva College.

  • Introduction to the History of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, B.A. course, Sapir College.

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Awards, Honors, Research Fellowships

1987-1988 Scholarship, Fondation Paul et Betty Winkler Pour la Paix, la Justice et le Progres
1988-1989 Scholarship, Direction des Relations Culturelles, the French Government
1989-1990 Grant, Fondation Paul et Betty Winkler Pour la Paix, la Justice et le Progres
1994-1995 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History of the Middle East, Ben-Gurion University

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Academic Publications

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Books

1. Shuval, Tal (1998).La ville d'Alger vers la fin du XIIIe siècle: population et cadre urbain (The city of Algiers towards the end of the 18th Century: Population and urban framework), Paris: CNRS Éditions.

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Chapters in Books - Conference Proceedings

1. Shuval, Tal (1995). Fortunes et résidences des Janissaires à Alger vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle d'après un registre d’inventaires après décès. (Fortunes and residences of the Janissaries of Algiers towards the end of the 18th century, According to a probate inventories register), in D. Panzac (ed.), Histoire économique et sociale de l’Empire Ottoman et de la Turquie (1326-1960), Paris: Peeters, 731-749.
2. Shuval, Tal (2004). Le dynamisme du waqf d'Alger au XVIIIe siècle. In R. Deguilhem and A. Hénia (eds.), Les fondations pieuses (waqf) en Méditerranée: enjeux de société, enjeux de pouvoir, Koweït, La Fondation Publique des Awqaf du Koweït.
3. Shuval, Tal (forthcoming). Center and periphery in the Ottoman Empire: The case of Algeria. In A collection of articles in honor of Prof. Arie Shmulevitz (Hebrew).

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Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals

1. Shuval, Tal (1996). La pratique de la m`âwada (échange de biens habus contre propriété privée) à Alger au XVIII sièle" (The practice of the m`âwada (Exchange of waqf property for private property) in Algiers in the 18th century). Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée, 79-80, 55-72.
2. Shuval, Tal (2000). Cezayir-i Garp: Bringing Algeria back into Ottoman history. New Perspectives on Turkey, 22, 85-114.
3. Shuval, Tal (2000). The Ottoman Algerian elite and its ideology, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 32, 323-344.
4. Shuval, Tal (2000). Households in Ottoman Algeria, Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 24, 41-64.
5. Shuval, Tal (2000). Poor quarter/rich quarter: Distribution of wealth in the Arab cities of the Ottoman Empire, the case of eighteenth-century Algiers, Turcica, 32, 169-196.
6. Shuval, Tal (2002). Remettre l'Algérie à l'heure Ottomane, Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranèe, 95-96-97-98, 423-448.
7. Shuval, Tal (2005). Violence in Ottoman Algeria, Zmanim, 92, 70-79.

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Non-Refereed Articles and Publications

1. Shuval, Tal (1998). Ottoman Algiers in the 18th century: Localization and Ottomanization - or "Turkish" ideology, Jama`a, 2, 46-62 (Hebrew).
2. 2. Shuval, Tal (1998). Review of: Michel Le Gall and Kenneth Perkins, The Maghrib in question: Essays in history and historiography (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997). Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 22, 95-100.
3. Shuval, Tal (2000). Review of: Brigitte Marino, Le faubourg du Mîdân à Damas à l'époque Ottomane: Espace urbain, société et habitat (1742-1830) (Damascus: Institut Français de Damas, 1997), Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 16, 122-123.
4. Shuval, Tal (2001). Review of: Daniel Panzac, Les corsaires barbaresques: La fin d’une épopée, 1800-1820 (Paris: Éditions CNRS, 1999), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 44, 395-398.
5. Shuval, Tal, Scientific Editor, 'The Modern Middle East' series (Tel-Aviv: The Open University of Israel): Egypt – The Older Sister, by Haggai Erlich (2003); Jordan – In Search of an Identity, by Joseph Nevo (2005); Iraq - Monarchy, Republic, Tyranny, by Michael Eppel (2005).
6. Shuval, Tal (2006). Review of: Thomas Philipp, Acre, The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831, Columbia University Press, 2002, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 49, 253-256.
7. Hoexter, M. and Shuval, T., Algiers, E. I. III (forthcoming).

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Conference Presentations and Invited Seminars

1. Shuval, Tal, The Practice of mu'&acric;wada in 18th-Century Algiers, The Ninth CIEPO Symposium, Jerusalem, July 1990.
2. S2. Shuval, Tal, Les Janissaires d'Alger au début du XVIIIe siècle d'après les inventaires après décès (The Janissaries of Algiers in the beginning of the 18th century, according to probate inventories), Documents pour l'étude des sociétés urbaines, archives, enquêtes et objets dans le monde arabo-musulman, Aix-en-Provence, March 1991.
3. Shuval, Tal, Les corsaires d'Alger au XVIIIe siècle (The Algerian Corsaires in the 18th century), Echanges maritimes et contacts socio-économiques en Méditerranée et mers proches, XVIe-XIXe Siécles, Aix-en-Provence, November 1991.
4. Shuval, Tal, Fortune et résidence des Janissaires d'Alger vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle selon les inventaires après décès. (Fortune and residence of the Janissaries of Algiers, at the end of the 18th century according to probate inventories), The Sixth International Conference of Economic and Social History of The Ottoman Empire and Turkey (1326-1960), Aix-En-Provence, July 1992.
5. Shuval, Tal, Ideology and its practice in Ottoman Algeria. The Annual Assembly of the Israeli Oriental Society, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, May 1995.
6. Shuval, Tal, Elements of order within anarchy: Reflections on the state of urban history, The Gabriel Baer Forum, Tel-Aviv University, March 1996.
7. Shuval, Tal, Le probléme Koulouglu à Alger à l'époque Ottomane: Idéologie et pratique (The Kuloglu problem in Ottoman Algiers: Ideology and practice), Les Chantiers Europeens de la Recherche, AFEMAM (Association Française pour l'Etude du Monde Arabe et Musulman) - EURAMES (European Association for Middle Eastern Studies), Aix-en-Provence, July 1996.
8. Shuval, Tal, Ottoman Algiers in the 18th century: Localization and Ottomanization or 'Turkish' ideology? The Mediterranean City: Between co-existence and conflict, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, December 1998.
9. Shuval, Tal, Bringing Algeria back into Ottoman history, The Gabriel Baer Forum, Tel-Aviv University, May 2001.
10. Shuval, Tal, The Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the new research, and future perspectives of research of the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, How should the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire be studied?, International Colloquium, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2000.
11. Shuval, Tal, Ottoman Algeria: Periphery and center, International Conference in Honour of Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh - Perspectives on the Ottoman reforms: Istanbul and the Syrian provinces, University of Haifa, March 2002.
12. 12. Shuval, Tal, La violence en Algérie au XVIIIe siècle, The "Rencontre Avec" program, Université de Provence-Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique-Université d'Aix-Marseille, Maison Méditerranéenne des Science de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence, March 2004.

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Seminars at Universities and Institutions

1. Shuval, Tal, Probate inventories and Waqfiyyât, Sources for the study of 18th century Algiers, Workshop on The Appropriation of the Past and its Sources, The Gustav E. Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, February 1997.
2. Shuval, Tal, Poor quarter - rich quarter. Distribution of wealth in the Arab cities of the Ottoman Empire, the case of 18th-century Algiers, Order in Anarchy: The Management of Urban Space and Society in the Islamic World, International Workshop, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, March 1997.
3. Shuval, Tal, Le dynamisme du waqf d’Alger au XVIIIe siècle, Workshop 6, The Second Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Networking Across the Contemporary Mediterranean: Foundation Trust Properties, Revenues and Socio-Political Alliances between North Africa, the Middle East and Europe, Florence, March 2001.
4. Shuval, Tal, Le habus et l'équipement urbain à Alger à la veille de l'occupation, international colloquium "Le rôle des fondations pieuses dans l'Algérie (17e-19e siècles): Sources, problématiques et thématiques", MMSH (Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme), Aix-en-Provence, June 2002.

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Research Students

1999-2000 Michael Nizri, M.A., the Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University.

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Current Activities

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Research in Progress

1. Central administration of Waqf in Ottoman Algiers and the management of the urban space.
2. North African Ottoman elites and their relations with Istanbul. A research project.

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