Barber of damascus: nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century ottoman levant

The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long 18th-century

A barber at the gate : a social and intellectual biography

"Cheap" monumentality : the nouveau literates and their texts

Authority and history : the genealogy of the Levantine 18th-century contemporary chronicle

A room of his own : the "history" of the barber of Damascus

Cutting the barber's tale : the afterlives of a history

Conclusion : from nouveau literacy to print journalism.