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Vincent Lemire

Vincent Lemire (born 1973) is a French historian.

In 1998 Lemire obtained the Agrégation for History. He received his doctorate in 2006 with his work ''La Soif de Jerusalem'' (lit. "The Thirst of Jerusalem"), which was published as a book in 2011. His book ''Jerusalem 1900'', published in 2013, was translated into several languages. Lemire works as lecturer at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and director of the European Open Jerusalem project, funded by the European Research Council.

Lemire's research topics are the History of the Middle East, in particular Jerusalem and its Moroccan Quarter, and the history of the French slums from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also deals with the History of photography. Provided by Wikipedia