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Episode 108
Omer Taşpınar, professor at the US National War College and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on “What the West is Getting Wrong about the …
5 years ago
Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
Episode 107
Gülay Türkmen on "Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds and the Limits of Religious Unity" (Oxford University Press). The book addresses how Islam …
5 years ago
Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
Episode 106
Mustafa Menshawy, author of “Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood: Self, Society and the State” (Palgrave), on how the migration of thousands of Muslim Bro…
5 years, 1 month ago
Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
Episode 105
Elizabeth Rodini on "Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image" (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book explor…
5 years, 1 month ago
Jan-Markus Vomel on the past and future of political Islam in Turkey
Episode 104
Jan-Markus Vömel, doctoral candidate at the University of Konstanz, on the origins and development of political Islam in Turkey from the 1950s to 200…
5 years, 2 months ago
Louis Fishman on Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era
Episode 103
Louis Fishman, associate professor at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, on “Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-19…
5 years, 2 months ago
Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey's religious nationalist status quo
Episode 102
Umut Azak of Istanbul's Okan University on Hagia Sophia's conversion from museum to mosque, the history of calls on Turkey's religious right to take …
5 years, 3 months ago
Ahmet Kuru on Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment
Episode 101
Ahmet Kuru on "Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge University Press).
Become a Turkey Book …
5 years, 3 months ago
Zeynep Çelik on archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Episode 100
Zeynep Çelik, professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, on the origins of archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, the response …
5 years, 4 months ago
Alan Mikhail on Selim I, the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern world
Episode 99
Alan Mikhail, professor of history at Yale University, on "God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern World" (WW Nor…
5 years, 4 months ago