Leon Julius Biela is a graduate student of modern history at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. From 2019 to 2021, he was a fellow of the Honours Programme for Future Researchers at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, with a research project on arms trade control in the interwar Gulf region in the context of British imperialism, liberal internationalism, and the interwar years disarmament efforts. His research interests are focused on the international history of the 20th century, particularly the interwar years and the Cold War.
Anna Bundt is a graduate student of history and English & American studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. She also studied at Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Izmir, Turkey, and at Central Michigan University as a graduate student and graduate teaching assistant. Her interests and historical research focus on communication, global, Middle Eastern, Ottoman and Turkish history. From 2020 to 2022, she was a fellow of the Honours Programme for Future Researchers at FSU Jena.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Illustrations 7
List of Tables 9
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 13
Hotels, Immigrant Houses, and Special Neighborhoods 33
From Their Classes to the Masses 65
A Clash of Concepts 89
Contesting Imperialism in Geneva 121
Post-Ottoman Diasporas, Identity Formation, and American World's Fairs in the Interwar Period 153
Translation as Means of Self-representation in Weimar Berlin Muslim Journals 191
Beyond Sea and Desert 219
A Fort under Another Name 247
Loopholes in the Law 275
List of Contributors 299
Illustration Credits 303
Index 305