Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal is a researcher at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli, and an honorary fellow of the British Institute At Ankara, where he was Assistant Director from 2019-2023. His first monograph, Britan's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923, compared the military occupations of Istanbul, Alexandria and Thessaloniki during the course of the First World War and its aftermath. He is currently researching the transformation of the Istanbul opium market from the final years of the Ottoman Empire to the Second World War in response to the creation of new opium-derivatives and local and international legal restrictions on trade in the drug.