The words ‘Turk’, ‘Arab’, and ‘Greek’ in the Ottoman Empire in 1899

While reading Khaled Khalifa&rsquo;s beautiful, elegiac novel No One Prayed Over Their Graves , I noticed something that may not matter in the context of the novel, but is worth thinking about if you&rsquo;re interested in the history of social categories that are taken for granted today. The narrator talks about a party thrown by a Christian woman in Istanbul to welcome the new century on the…