Nadav Salomonovich is a teaching fellow in the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies. He is a sociocultural historian of the Middle East and his research and teaching areas include the sociocultural history of modern Turkey and its roots in the late Ottoman Empire; Islam in modern Turkey; Nationalism and nation-building processes in the Middle East; and memory studies. After completing his doctoral studies, Solomonovich won the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (ESKAS), enabling him to study as a postdoctoral fellow at Basel University in 2019-2020. In 2020-2021 he served as a postdoctoral fellow at Haifa University. In 2021-2022 he served as a fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study at the New Europe College in Bucharest. In 2022-2024, he won a research scholarship from the German Gerda Henkel Foundation. His first book, The Korean War in Turkish Culture and Society, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2021. 
 

Courses taught:

Basic Chapters in the History of the Modern Middle East; Nationalism, Memory and Commemoration in the Modern Middle East

Recent Publications: 

 

“Third World War in the early Cold War Turkish Media,” War in History, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1177/09683445251379019

“From ‘Atomic Spies’ to Turkish-American Relations: The Cold War in Turkish Children’s Magazines in the 1950s,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 55.4 (2023), pp. 693-714.

“‘A strange country’: representations of the nascent state of Israel in the Turkish press,” Israel Affairs 28.5 (2022), pp. 680-694.

“‘I am a Turk!’ The Construction of Turkish Nationalism in Ömer Seyfettin’s War Stories,” Hamizrah Hehadash 61 (2022), pp. 137-166. [in Hebrew].

“Marrying the Enemy? Turkish Nationalism, Citizenship, and the Public Debate over Mixed Marriages in the 1940s Turkish Press,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 24.4 (2022), pp. 663-681.