Turkey RPCV Robert Olsen is the author of some 70 research articles, 80 essays and reference works and 180 book reviews on Middle History and Politics
Robert W. Olson
Professor
Ph.D., Indiana, 1973
Middle East
Ottoman Empire
Islamic History
Author: Dr. Robert Olson, Professor Middle History and Politics. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1973 where he studied with Professor Wadie Jwaideh and specialized in the history of the Ottoman Empire and contemporary politics of the Middle East.
Publications: The Siege of Mosul and Ottoman-Persian Relations, 1718-1743: A Study of Rebellion in the Capital and War in the Provinces of the Ottoman Empire (1975); translated into Arabic (1983);
The Ba'th and Syria, 1947-1979: An Interpretative Historical Essay (1980);
The Ba'th and Syria from the French Mandate to the Era of Hafez at-Asad, 1947-1982 (1982);
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion: 1880-1925 (1989); translated into Turkish (1982); translated into Persian (1989); translated into Kurdish (2000);
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism (1991);
Imperial Meanderings and Republican By-Ways: Essays on Eighteenth Century Ottoman and Twentieth Century History of Turkey (1996);
The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations: From World War I to 1998 (1998); revised and translated into Arabic under the title The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations: From World War I to 2000 (2001) translated into Persian (2002);
Turkey's Relations with Iran, Syria, Israel and Russia, 1991-2000: The Kurdish and Islamist Questions (2001);
Masale Kurd va Revabet-e Iran va Turkiy/The Kurdish Question in Turkish-Iranian Relations in the Twentieth Century. In Persian, (2002).
Co-editor: Iran: Essays on a Revolution in the Making (1981);
Orientalism, Islam and Islamists (1985); translated into Turkish (1992);
Islamic and Middle Eastern Societies: A Festschrift in Honor of Wadie Jwaideh (1987);
The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990s: Its Impact on Turkey and the Middle East (1996).
Professor Olson is the author of some 70 research articles, 80 essays and reference works and 180 book reviews. Fulbright Senior Professor Research Middle East Civilization Program Fellowship (1990-91); University Research Professor, (1995-96); The Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial University Professor (1999-2000); Best Book Award Third World Studies Association, 1999-2000; Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences (2000-01); member of the Strategic Assessment Group of the Central Intelligence Agency's Future Panel on Turkey and the Kurdish Question (2000-03).
March 10, 2003
