Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMaureen Freely on the life and work of Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Episode 58
Maureen Freely on the enduring appeal of Sait Faik Abasiyanik (1906-1954), perhaps Turkey’s greatest short story writer. Freely co-translated a selec…
6 years, 11 months ago
Caroline Eden on a culinary journey along the Black Sea coast
Episode 57
Caroline Eden on “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light” (Quadrille), a richly illustrated part-cookbook, part-travelogue de…
7 years ago
Yigit Akin on the Ottoman home front during World War One
Episode 56
Yigit Akin on “When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire” (Stanford University Press), a richly researched stu…
7 years ago
Lora Sarı on the life, photography and writing of Ara Guler
Episode 55
Lora Sarı on the life, photography and writing of the late Ara Güler, following the publication of "We Will Live After Babylon" (Aras). The book is a…
7 years, 1 month ago
Alev Scott on 'Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire'
Episode 54
Alev Scott on "Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire" (Riverrun), her travelogue exploring the past and present of Turkey and the former ter…
7 years, 1 month ago
Avedis Hadjian on the 'hidden Armenians' of Anatolia
Episode 53
Avedis Hadjian on his book "Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey" (IB Tauris).
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7 years, 2 months ago
Begum Adalet on the Cold War origins of Turkey-US ties
Episode 52
Begüm Adalet on "Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey" (Stanford University Press).
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7 years, 2 months ago
Doğu Eroğlu on investigating ISIS networks in Turkey
Episode 51
Doğu Eroğlu on "ISIS Networks: Radicalisation, Organisation, Logistics in Turkey” (İletişim), his forensic account of jihadi operations in Turkey and…
7 years, 3 months ago
Sinan Yıldırmaz on urban migration and the peasantry in Turkish politics
Episode 50
Sinan Yıldırmaz of Istanbul University on "Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey" (IB Tauris), examining the transition to a multi-party syst…
7 years, 3 months ago
Nazlı Alimen on faith, headscarves and conservative fashion in Turkey
Episode 49
Nazlı Alimen on her book "Faith and Fashion in Turkey: Consumption, Politics and Islamic Identity" (IB Tauris).
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7 years, 4 months ago