Berlin through Arab-Ottoman Eyes in the Wake of Defeat KU Leuven
In this paper, I will study the unpublished diaries of Zeki Hishmat Bey Kirām (1886–1946), an Ottoman-Arab officer and commander of the Bedouin troops in Sinai during WWI, who had ended up in Berlin after he was injured by British fire in 1916. His ego-documents paint a vivid picture of daily life in the German capital in the last years of the war and the early post-war period. The handwritten diaries in my possession, which Kirām to a large ...