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Back to SearchAslı Aydıntaşbaş on Turkey and Europe beyond hypocrisy
Episode 38
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, journalist and fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, on the ECFR's recent report: "The Discreet Charm of Hypocrisy: …
7 years, 9 months ago
Diana Darke on Abu Chaker and the modern history of Syria
Episode 37
Diana Darke on “The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival” (Hurst). The book traces the life of Abu Chaker, a textile merchant from Homs who lived…
7 years, 9 months ago
Max Hoffman on Turkey's latest nationalist wave
Episode 36
Max Hoffman of the Center for American Progress on the major recent study “Is Turkey Experiencing a New Nationalism?” based on focus groups and polli…
7 years, 10 months ago
Ceren Baysan on voters, parties and polarization in Turkey
Episode 35
Ceren Baysan of UC Berkeley on her paper "Can More Information Lead to More Voter Polarization? Experimental Evidence from Turkey." The study was bas…
7 years, 10 months ago
Mehmet Kentel on the world of Ottoman caricaturist Yusuf Franko
Episode 34
Mehmet Kentel on the life and work of Yusuf Franko, an obscure Ottoman bureaucrat who lived a remarkable double life as a caricaturist depicting Ista…
7 years, 11 months ago
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on the 'exit from democracy' in Turkey and beyond
Episode 33
Karabekir Akkoyunlu, research associate at the University of Graz, on "Exit from Democracy: Illiberal Governance in Turkey and Beyond" (Routledge), a…
7 years, 11 months ago
Edhem Eldem on Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II between fantasy and reality
Season 1 Episode 32
Professor Edhem Eldem on "A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II" (Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Houssine Alloul and Henk de S…
8 years ago
Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State
Episode 31
Arbil-based journalist Cathy Otten discusses "With Ash on their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State" (OR Books), a deeply reported account of t…
8 years ago
Ezgi Başaran on ‘frontline Turkey,’ Gülenists and the Kurdish peace process
Episode 30
Journalist Ezgi Başaran on "Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East" (IB Tauris), a 200-page account of the collapse of the Ku…
8 years ago
Raja Shehadeh on 'travels with his Ottoman uncle,' Palestine and the First World War
Episode 29
Palestinian author and lawyer Raja Shehadeh on "A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle" (OR/Basic Books), retracing the journey of his great u…
8 years, 1 month ago