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Back to SearchRyan Gingeras on the last days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922
Episode 158
Ryan Gingeras on “The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire 1918-1922” (Allen Lane). The conversation addresses events between the end of the First World W…
3 years, 1 month ago
Enno Maessen on nostalgia and cosmopolitanism in Istanbul’s Beyoglu
Episode 157
Enno Maessen, lecturer in political history at Utrecht University, on “Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in …
3 years, 1 month ago
Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad
Episode 156
Gönül Tol, director of the Turkey program at the Middle East Institute, on “Erdogan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria” (Oxford Unive…
3 years, 2 months ago
Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey
Episode 155
Elise Massicard on “Street-Level Governing: Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey” (Stanford University Press). The book dives deep into the world of…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans
Episode 154
Jonathan Parry, Professor of Modern British History at the University of Cambridge, on “Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East” (Pri…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
Episode 153
Sevgi Adak on “Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book examines measures …
3 years, 3 months ago
Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
Episode 152
Galip Dalay on his Middle East Council on Global Affairs paper “Turkey’s Middle East Reset: A Precursor for Reescalation?” The piece looks at Ankara'…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
Episode 151
Jan-Markus Vomel on his article “Pathos and Discipline: Islamist Masculinity in Turkey, 1950-2000”, published in the journal Zeithistorische Forschun…
3 years, 4 months ago
Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
Episode 150
Saniye Dedeoglu on “Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey Work, Precarity, Survival” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book looks at Syrians' integrati…
3 years, 5 months ago
Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Episode 149
Gönül Bozoğlu on “Museums, Emotion and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey” (Routledge). The book examines Istanbul's Panorama 1453 Mu…
3 years, 5 months ago