Includes bibliographical references.

Ottomans and drinkers : the consumption of alcohol in Istanbul in the nineteenth century / François Georgeon -- Prisons and marginalisation in nineteenth-century Egypt / Rudolph Peters -- Getting into the shelter of Takiyat Tulun / Mine Ener -- Prostitution in Egypt in the nineteenth century / Khaled Fahmy -- Madness and marginality : the advent of the psychiatric asylum in Egypt and Lebanon / Eugene Rogan -- Migrants and workers in an Ottoman port : Ottoman Salonica in the eighteenth century / Eyal Ginio -- Marginality and migration : Europe's social outcasts in pre-colonial Tunisia, 1830-81 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Public morality and marginality in fin-de-siècle Beirut / Jens Hanssen -- Entertainers in Baghdad, 1900-50 / Sami Zubaida -- Shifting narratives on marginality : female entertainers in twentieth-century Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk.

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