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Hats and Hijabs in Algeria and Turkey

January 17, 2018, 10:23 am
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Episode 341

with Sara Rahnama
hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz

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In this episode, we explore debates about aesthetics, headwear, and dress in interwar Algeria and Turkey. Why did hats and hijabs generate so much debate among Algerian thinkers, both men and women? How did expectations about what men would wear on their heads carry different political connotations than similar debates about women's head coverings? This episode takes up the role of dress and comportment in shaping Algerian conversations about colonialism, feminism, and Islamic reform, as well as the importance of a "Turkish model" in interwar Algerian debates.

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Emek Cinema and Contesting Istanbul's Urban Development

January 23, 2018, 1:53 am
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Episode 342

with Selcen Coşkun
Lorans Tanatar Baruh
and Seda Kula Say
hosted by Nilay Özlü, Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian

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In this episode, we discuss the history of Beyoğlu's Emek Cinema from its construction in 1884 to its 2013 destruction, which sparked major opposition among Turkish intellectuals, writers, researchers, members of the film industry, and lovers of cinema and of Beyoğlu, many of whom fought to keep this piece of Istanbul's cultural and architectural heritage. Through a wide-ranging discussion with architects and historians, this episode shows how the history of one building can speak to trajectories of urban development, violence, and transformation in Istanbul from Ottoman times until today.

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Disillusionment in Morocco’s February 20 Movement

January 26, 2018, 8:00 am
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Episode 343

with Taieb Belghazi & Abdelhay Moudden
hosted by Graham Cornwell

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How do we assess fizzling protest movements? How do social scientists account for difficult-to-quantify facets of political engagement like emotion and momentum? In this episode, we discuss ihbat, or disillusionment, in the failures of Morocco’s February 20th movement. Part of the Arab Spring movements across the region, the coalition of groups that comprised February 20th rather quickly ground to a halt a few months later. In a major speech in March 2011, King Mohammed VI pledged major reforms, a new constitution, and a new election. In July of that year, Moroccans voted overwhelmingly in favor of stability and “consultation” and approved the new constitution. The euphoria of the early days of the movement subsided and gave way to feelings of ihbat. But disillusionment, as we discuss here, is not as one-dimensional nor permanent as one might think. Taieb Belghazi and Abdelhay Moudden point towards a possible new direction in political science research that uses literary and artistic sources to get at the emotional aspect of political engagement and organization.

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Half a Century of Occupation

February 5, 2018, 9:04 am
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Episode 344

with Gershon Shafir
hosted by Nir Shafir

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2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War and the start of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights. Gershon Shafir discusses why this occupation has lasted for so long in the West Bank and how “the Occupation” has differed from earlier forms of settler colonialism in Israel-Palestine. In particular, we focus on the state of “permanent temporariness” that the Israeli government has purposefully inculcated in the face of international law and the emergence of a specific movement of religious-nationalist settlers. At the end, Shafir contemplates how the Occupation has changed the larger Arab-Israeli conflict itself and, by means of a feasibility study, suggests a variety of different visions for the future of the area.

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Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria

February 8, 2018, 4:51 pm
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Episode 345

with Will Hanley
hosted by Taylor M. Moore

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In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his book, Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. We explore how nationality—an abstract tool in the pages of international legal codes—became a new social and legal category that tangibly impacted the lives of natives and newcomers to Alexandria at the turn of the twentieth century. We consider how nationality brought together the previously impersonal, stranger networks using an array of paper technologies, vocabularies, and legal practices that forged bonds of affiliations between the individuals and groups that inhabited the city. Finally, we discuss how Egyptians and non-European foreigners, such as Algerians, Tunisians, and Maltese, benefited or were disenfranchised from a legal hierarchy that privileged white, male Europeans.

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The Gardens of Mughal Kashmir

February 12, 2018, 2:53 am
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Episode 346

with Jan Haenraets
hosted by Nir Shafir and Polina Ivanova

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Over the course of the seventeenth century, Kashmir became a valley adorned with gardens as Mughal emperors and nobles built garden after garden across the valley floor and mountainous landscape. In this episode, we speak with landscape architect and preservation specialist Jan Haenaerts on his research into the history of these gardens. We discuss not only their historical formation and usage of these spaces but also how they differed from the more well known Mughal gardens surrounding the Taj Mahal and Humayun's tomb. In the second half of the episode we also explore the difficulty of conserving historical gardens and landscapes in general and how this occurs in conflict areas such as Kashmir.

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The Bible and Modern Standard Arabic

February 15, 2018, 7:05 pm
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Episode 347

with Rana Issa
hosted by Shireen Hamza

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What are the origins of the Arabic language, and what are its foundational texts? Most writers of lexicons of the Arabic language center the Arabian peninsula and the Quran. In this episode, we discuss an alternative narrative put forth in the nineteenth century by an Arab Christian writer, Buṭrus al-Bustānī. Rana Issa explores the passages in al-Bustānī's lexicon of the Arabic language, Muḥīṭ al-Muḥīṭ, in which he offers biblical origins for many Arabic words. Though his lexicon drew on conventional methodologies, it offered a history of Arabic tied closely to Christianity and the Levant. Issa explains how al-Bustānī contributed to Christianizing the Syro-Lebanese national identity, and the Arabic language, in the wake of the Mount Lebanon Civil War.

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The Republic of Arabic Letters

February 22, 2018, 7:31 pm
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Episode 348

with Alexander Bevilacqua
hosted by Maryam Patton and Shireen Hamza

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When and how did European scholars first begin to seriously study Islam and the Arabic language? It has often been assumed that Medieval misconceptions and polemic towards Muslims were not cast off until the secularism of the European Enlightenment. In this episode, we learn that the foundations of the modern Western understanding were actually laid as early as the 17th century. Alexander Bevilacqua shares his research on the network of Catholic and Protestant scholars he calls the “Republic of Arabic Letters.” These scholars went to great lengths to learn Arabic and gather Arabic books and manuscripts, and eventually produced careful translations of the Qur’an and histories of Muslim societies based on Arabic sources.

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States of Emergency in the Late Ottoman Empire

February 28, 2018, 12:41 pm
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Episode 349

with Noémi Lévy-Aksu
hosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot

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Idare-i örfiyye (or örfi idare), loosely translated as a “state of emergency or siege,” was a neologism introduced in the first Ottoman constitution in 1876 to allow the suspension of ordinary legal order in Ottoman localities in case of actual or potential uprisings. While the term clearly referred to the Ottoman legal tradition, the idare-i örfiyye was also inspired by contemporary definitions of regimes of exception in France and other countries. This conversation offers an insight into the genesis of this legal notion and seeks to understand the political, geographic and social impact of the widespread implementation of idare-i örfiyye in the Ottoman provinces during Abdülhamid II reign and the early Young Turk period.

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Industrial Sexualities in Twentieth-Century Egypt

March 5, 2018, 11:04 am
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Episode 350

with Hanan Hammad
hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Seçil Yilmaz

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In this episode, we discuss the emergence of new masculinities, femininities, and visions of "good sex" in Egypt's al-Mahalla al-Kubra, a city in the Nile Delta that became one of the main centers of industrial production and manufacturing in the early twentieth century. How did men and women who came to al-Mahalla to work in the factory, run boardinghouses, and perform other forms of labor negotiate the coercive hierarchies of industrial capitalism in their daily and intimate lives? What can we learn about modes of existence and resistance from considering their experiences, and how do the stories of working-class men and women challenge or nuance the more well-known accounts of gender and family in Egypt that have been based on the middle-class press?

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Moriscos and Iberian Thought

March 13, 2018, 12:43 am
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Episode 351

with Seth Kimmel
hosted by Nir Shafir

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In 1609 the Moriscos were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula, marking the end of a hundred year effort to assimilate as New Christians these former Muslims. In this podcast, Seth Kimmel speaks to us about the impact of these conversions and expulsions on Iberian intellectual history. We discuss how Spanish officials and scholars attempted to force Moriscos to abandon practices like speaking Arabic and going to the bathhouse. In the process, each of these groups had to define the line between religion and culture, not only for Islam but also for Christianity. At the same time, the need to explain the failure of Morisco integration required new techniques of narration, source usage, and philological expertise. Taken together, these are unexpected intellectual and religious developments from a tragic chapter of history.

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The Argentine Mahjar

March 16, 2018, 6:53 am
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Episode 352

with Lily Pearl Balloffet
hosted by Ella Fratantuono

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, over 100,000 Arabic-speaking immigrants settled in Argentina, making it the second most popular destination after the United States for participants in the mahjar, or diaspora of Arabic speaking migrants prior to World War I. In this episode, Lily Pearl Balloffet discusses transnational connections between Latin America and the Eastern Mediterranean. In particular, we focus on how the mahjar influenced the Middle East in the twentieth century and how Arabic-speaking Argentines forged community ties within Argentina. Balloffet describes the role of women’s philanthropy networks in creating interprovincial, rural-urban, and transnational connections. At the end of the podcast, she shares how she has been able to employ database work and digital mapping tools to understand more holistically the geographical breadth and social characteristics of the Argentine mahjar.

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Jerba: an Island in Time

March 28, 2018, 4:26 am
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Episode 353

with Renata Holod
hosted by Emily Neumeier

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For the first time on the podcast, we discuss the role of archaeology and its potential to contribute to our knowledge of the Ottoman world. More specifically, we explore how the field of landscape archaeology can offer a better understanding of how different factors of religion, politics, and culture impacted the manipulation of territory over millenia. The large-scale examination of material culture and vernacular architecture in a rural setting particularly has the potential to fill in the gaps of the historical archive, providing information about communities that otherwise remain relatively unknown. In this episode, we speak with Renata Holod, who co-directed a multi-year archaeological and architectural survey of the island of Jerba, off the coast of Tunisia. Our conversation not only explains the techniques and methodologies deployed during the project, but also ranges to wider reflections on the different ways the arrival of the Ottomans on the island can be read in the landscape itself.

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Dragomans and the Routes of Orientalism

March 30, 2018, 2:33 am
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Episode 354

with Natalie Rothman
hosted by Nir Shafir and Aslihan Gürbüzel

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Dragomans are often known as diplomatic translators, but their responsibilities and roles went much further than being mere interpreters. In this podcast, we speak with Natalie Rothman about how dragomans negotiated both linguistic space and social space across the Eastern Mediterranean. Focusing specifically on the case of Venetian dragomans, we discuss their training and how they managed to become brokers of knowledge and connections between the Ottoman Empire and myriad publics in Venice and beyond. In the second half of the podcast, we delve a bit deeper and examine how dragomans came to contribute to the budding world of Orientalist knowledge among seventeenth-century European scholars.

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Circulation de l'information dans l'Algérie coloniale

April 4, 2018, 6:44 am
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Episode 355

avec Arthur Asseraf
animée par Dorothée Myriam Kellou et Aurélie Perrier

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Comment s’informe t-on dans l’Algérie coloniale ? Quels liens peut-on établir entre l’apparition de medias de masse, comme le cinéma ou la radio, et l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme de communauté politique dans l’Algérie de l’entre-deux-guerres ? Dans cet épisode, Arthur Asseraf décrit le paysage médiatique très diversifié et en pleine mutation des années 1930s, où medias traditionnels et modernes, locaux et internationaux, coexistent, se superposent et s’affrontent. Déconstruisant l’idée reçue selon laquelle l’avènement de la radio aurait engendré un public homogène favorisant l’émergence du nationalisme algérien, Arthur Asseraf insiste sur la grande diversité des canaux et des sources d’informations dans l’Algérie de l’entre-deux-guerre. Chaque média véhiculant sa propre orientation idéologique et reflétant la fragmentation de la société algérienne et ses multiples clivages. La discussion évoque d’abord l’impact des nouveaux médias sur l’émergence de radicalités politiques ainsi que la censure de l’actualité par les autorités coloniales. Elle aborde ensuite la question des publics visés et de la langue à adopter (arabe classique ou dialectal, français ou kabyle ?). Enfin, la discussion met au jour l'importance de l'actualité internationale en Algérie et la pénétration de médias issus de France, mais aussi du Caire, de Tunis ou même d'Italie ou d'Espagne. Pour finir, la discussion évoque le rôle de la « rumeur » dans la fabrique de l’information et l’étymologie de l’expression « téléphone arabe ».

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"They Can Live in the Desert"

April 7, 2018, 3:27 am
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Episode 356

with Ronald Grigor Suny
hosted by Matthew Ghazarian

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In this episode we talk about the history of the Armenian genocide, drawing on Ronald Grigor Suny’s 2015 monograph, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide. First, we discuss the conditions that led to these events, which affected not only Armenians but also Assyrians, Kurds, and a host of others across the empire. What factors set the stage for mass violence, who were the key actors, and how was the destruction actually carried out? In the second half, we turn to the legal and political developments at the United Nations, among Armenian communities in the diaspora, and within Turkey, to examine how the genocide has been remembered, commemorated, and written into history.

Release Date: 7 April 2018

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Love Poems of an Ottoman Woman: Mihrî Hatun

April 11, 2018, 7:15 pm
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Episode 357

with Didem Havlioğlu
hosted by Chris Gratien

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What did it mean to be a woman in the intellectual world of early modern Islamic empires? In this episode, our guest Didem Havlioğlu offers one answer to this question through the life and works of Mihrî Hatun, an Ottoman woman from 15th-century Amasya whose poetry survives to this day. Mihrî was unique within the male-dominated sphere of early modern love poetry, and as we discuss in this podcast, her position as a woman was integral to her poetry and its meaning. These poems and the relationships of this exceptional writer are the subject of Havlioğlu's new book entitled Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press).

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Politics of the Family in the New Turkey

April 17, 2018, 9:23 am
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Episode 358

with Hikmet Kocamaner
hosted by Chris Gratien

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Discourses surrounding the family and morality have played an important role in modern political debates. In this episode, we discuss the politics of family in Turkey and its relationship to both religion and government policy. Our guest Hikmet Kocamaner discusses how the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs--the Diyanet--oversees a range of activities concerning the family as part of the project of a "New Turkey" championed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). In particular, we discuss family-oriented television programming related to Diyanet. While distinctively Islamic in their rhetoric, these programs in fact serve as a fascinating meeting point for various expert approaches to social issues and the family, demonstrating the complex entanglement of Islamic and secular institutions in modern Turkey.

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Dervish Piety and Alevism in Late Medieval Anatolia

April 20, 2018, 1:47 pm
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Episode 359

with Zeynep Oktay Uslu
hosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Işın Taylan

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In this episode, we explore the evolution of Abdal and Bektashi doctrine from the 14th to 17th centuries. The Abdals of Rum and the Bektashis were two dervish groups in Anatolia who by the 16th century would merge to become the Bektashi Sufi order. Many Bektashi beliefs and practices are also inter-connected with those of Alevi communities. By taking a closer look at Abdal and Bektashi poetry, we examine how poetry, fiction, and other aspects of dervish piety evolved into the core beliefs of contemporary Alevism in Turkey.

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Podcasting the Ottomans II

April 29, 2018, 11:00 am
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Episode 360

hosted by Taylan Güngör& Zeinab Azarbadegan
with Michael Talbot, Tanya Skyba-Bartholomew, Andrew Cottis, Albert Stitt, Maisie Theobald, and Megan Rowlands

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In 2017, our episode Podcasting the Ottomans took a look at Professor Dana Sajdi’s Ottoman history course at Boston College that was based primarily on episodes of the Ottoman History Podcast, and elicited student reactions to the medium. In this conversation, we explore students’ experiences of making their own podcasts as we sit down with Dr. Michael Talbot to discuss the pedagogic thinking behind his course, ‘Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.’ After talking to Dr. Talbot about his experience with the course, we chat with some of his final year undergraduate students from the History programme at the University of Greenwich in London to hear about their own engagement with Ottoman history, podcasts, and podcasting.

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