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Back to SearchMichael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy
Michael Wuthrich chats about "National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics and the Party System" (Syracuse University Press), a rich and provocativ…
9 years, 4 months ago
Ece Temelkuran on 'Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy'
Ece Temelkuran joins the pod to discuss her new book “Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy” (Zed Books), a vivid and personal account of the curren…
9 years, 4 months ago
Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media past and present
Bilge Yeşil speaks about her book “Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State” (University of Illinois Press), tracing pr…
9 years, 5 months ago
Cem Emrence on 'remapping the Ottoman Middle East'
Cem Emrence on his book “Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam” (IB Tauris). The book looks at Ottoman moderni…
9 years, 6 months ago
Maureen Freely on Sabahattin Ali and translating 'Madonna in a Fur Coat'
Maureen Freely joins to discuss the tragic life of author Sabahattin Ali and her translation of his classic 1943 novel “Madonna in a Fur Coat,” just…
9 years, 6 months ago
Umut Uzer on the history of Turkish nationalism
Umut Uzer of Istanbul Technical University joins to discuss his new book "An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism: Between Turkish Ethnicity a…
9 years, 7 months ago
Shadi Hamid on 'Islamic exceptionalism,' Turkey and the Middle East
Brookings Institution senior fellow Shadi Hamid joins the pod to discuss his new book 'Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshapi…
9 years, 7 months ago
Ryan Gingeras on the fall of the Ottoman sultanate
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Ryan Gingeras returns to the podcast to discuss his new book "The Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922" …
9 years, 8 months ago
Cihan Tuğal on the fall of the 'Turkish model'
Cihan Tuğal, a sociologist at UC Berkeley, chats about "The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism" (Verso…
9 years, 9 months ago
Judy Saryan on Zabel Yessayan and the 1909 massacres of Armenians in Adana
Editor Judith Saryan on a new edition of Zabel Yessayan's account of a trip to Adana in the aftermath of pogroms targeting Armenians there in 1909. "…
9 years, 9 months ago