Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLora Sarı on the Istanbul-based Armenian publisher Aras
Episode 28
Editor Lora Sarı on Aras, a publishing house set up in 1993 in Istanbul as a "window onto Armenian literature." We also discuss Migirdic Margosyan's …
8 years, 1 month ago
Özlem Madi-Şişman on Muslims, money and democracy in Turkey
Episode 27
Özlem Madi-Şişman on her book "Muslims, Money and Democracy in Turkey: Reluctant Capitalists" (Palgrave Macmillan).
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8 years, 2 months ago
Fikret Adaman on Erdoğan, the environment and economic policy in Turkey
Episode 26
Fikret Adaman of Istanbul's Boğaziçi University on "Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdoğan" (IB Tau…
8 years, 2 months ago
Alexander Clarkson on Turks and Kurds in Germany
Episode 25
Alexander Clarkson of Kings College London discusses his research on the Turkish and Kurdish diaspora in Germany, the long shadow of Turkey's 1980 mi…
8 years, 3 months ago
Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk
Episode 24
Ekin Oklap on translating Orhan Pamuk into English and the release of "The Red-Haired Woman" (Faber), the second novel she has worked on with Pamuk. …
8 years, 3 months ago
Cenk Özbay on male prostitution in Istanbul and LGBT rights in Turkey
Episode 23
Cenk Özbay, associate professor at Sabancı University, on his book “Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City” (IB Tauri…
8 years, 4 months ago
Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey
Episode 22
Journalist Suzy Hansen on "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), on the delusions of …
8 years, 4 months ago
Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire
Episode 1
Professor Douglas Howard on "A History of the Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press), his new single-volume history covering the empire from it…
8 years, 5 months ago
Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege
Episode 1
Max Hoffman discusses the report "Trends in Turkish Civil Society," a joint publication by the Center for American Progress, the Istanbul Policy Cent…
8 years, 5 months ago
Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey
Episode 21
Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute discusses his book "The New Sultan: Erdoğan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey" (IB Tauris).
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8 years, 5 months ago