Yael will address the targeting of the Arabic language for elimination in Turkey's process of transforming Liwa Iskenderun (the Sanjak d'Alexandrette) into 'Hatay' via annexation and re-territorialization onwards from 1939.
Yael Navaro-Yashin is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. She is the author of Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey.
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