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Back to SearchMalte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era
Episode 118
Malte Fuhrmann, research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, on “Port Cities of the East Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman …
4 years, 7 months ago
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
Episode 117
Sir Noel Malcolm, senior research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, on “Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Poli…
4 years, 8 months ago
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
Episode 116
Evren Savcı, author of "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam" (Duke University Press), on shifting discourse around LGBT righ…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
Episode 115
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on “Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the 21st Century" (Edinburgh University Press). Based on extensive fiel…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
Episode 114
Jenny White, professor at Stockholm University's Institute for Turkish Studies, on "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Pri…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Episode 113
Jeremy Seal on “A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land” (Penguin). The book explores the legacy of Adnan Me…
4 years, 10 months ago
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Episode 112
Taner Doğan on “Communication Strategies in Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP and Political Messaging” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury).
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4 years, 10 months ago
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
Episode 111
Murat Erdoğan, director of the Turkish German University's Migration and Integration Research Centre, on the future of Syrians in Turkey. Erdoğan ove…
4 years, 11 months ago
Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Episode 110
Chiara Maritato on "Women, Religion and the State in Contemporary Turkey" (Cambridge University Press), examining the causes and effects of women's e…
4 years, 11 months ago
Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
Episode 109
Mostafa Minawi on "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz" (Stanford University Press), examining the Otto…
5 years ago