Mementos from Habsburg Life in Ottoman Istanbul
Episode 465 with Robyn Dora Radway hosted by Emily NeumeierWhat was it like to be a foreigner living in Ottoman Istanbul? In this episode, our guest Robyn Dora Radway answers this question by providing...
View ArticleThe Economic Roots of Modern Sudan
Episode 466 with Alden Young hosted by Chris Gratien As a site of recent civil wars, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, Sudan's history is often framed by violence. In this podcast, our guest Alden Young...
View ArticleThe Mediterranean Viewed from the Southern Shore
Episode 467 with Jasmin Daam,Esther Möller,Cyrus Schayegh, and Selim Deringil hosted by Andreas Guidi Modern Mediterranean history and Middle Eastern history rarely dialogue with each other. Whereas...
View ArticleShibli Nomani's Urdu Travelogue of the Ottoman Empire
Episode 468 with Gregory Maxwell Bruce hosted by Zoe Griffith In 1892, the renowned Islamic scholar and educator Shibli Nomani traveled to the Ottoman Empire, where he visited cities in modern-day...
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Sources in Translation: A Chechen Immigrant's Petition to the Ottoman State...
The following translation is based on one of two petitions or arzuhals written by a Chechen notable named Dzhantemir, one of thousands of refugees or muhacirs (pronounced muhajir) from the North...
View ArticleRefugee Families in the Era of Global Security
Episode 469 with Sophia Balakian hosted by Chris Gratien Resettling refugee families sounds like a straightforwardly noble goal. But what happens when a particular definition of the family is used to...
View ArticleMitler, Gerçekler ve Yöntem
Bölüm 470 Edhem Eldem Sunucu: Işın Taylan Son elli yılda Türkiye’de tarih yazımında neler değişti? Osmanlı tarihi çalışmalarında hangi kaynaklar, hangi yöntemlerle kullanılıyor? Bu bölümde Edhem Eldem...
View ArticleDavid Ohannessian: Art, Exile, and the Legacies of Genocide
Episode 471 with Sato Moughalian hosted by Sam DolbeeDavid Ohannessian is one of the foremost pioneers of the ceramic styles associated today with the city of Jerusalem, but the remarkable story of how...
View ArticleThe Life and Times of Sultan Selim I
Episode 472 with Alan Mikhail hosted by Sam DolbeeSultan Selim I is well known for the conquests he pursued that brought places like Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca into the Ottoman Empire. But in this...
View ArticleTravel Images Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire
Episode 473 with Elisabeth Fraser hosted by Emily NeumeierFor centuries, people have been documenting their travels with images, which purportedly function as visual evidence for someone’s experience...
View ArticleCemal Kafadar Between Past and Present, Part 2
Episode 474 with Cemal Kafadar hosted by Maryam Patton, Chris Gratien, and Sam DolbeeIn part two of our interview with Cemal Kafadar, we discuss how history writing might play an emancipatory role in...
View ArticleThe Imperial Caliphates
narrated by Chris Gratienfeaturing Hugh Kennedy, Joshua White, Fahad Bishara, Maryam Patton, and Jeannie MillerThe first decades of Islam were characterized by a rapid territorial expansion accompanied...
View ArticleNationalism and Capitalism in British-Occupied Egypt
Episode 475with Aaron Jakeshosted by Susanna FergusonNationalism is often seen as a natural political desire or as a modal form spread around the world by modern technologies and conditions, such as...
View ArticleItalian Empire and the Dodecanese
Episode 476 with Valerie McGuire hosted by Chris Gratien The Dodecanese Islands in the Southeastern Aegean Sea are part of Greece today, and for centuries, they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire....
View ArticleRumi's World
narrated by Chris Gratienfeaturing Joshua White, Neelam Khoja, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, and Maryam PattonThe political expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid periods brought a wide range of territories into the...
View ArticleII. Abdülhamid Dönemi'nde Devrimciler, Ermeniler ve Rejim
Bölüm 477 Toygun Altıntaş Sunucu: Can Gümüş Bu bölümde Dr. Toygun Altıntaş ile Ermeni siyasi aktivistleri ve devrimcilerinin 1880 ve 90'lı yıllarda Doğu ve Orta Anadolu'daki faaliyetleri üzerine sohbet...
View ArticleZeinab's Odyssey: Gender, Mobility, and the Mahjar
Episode 478 with Randa Tawil hosted by Chris Gratien How do social categories like gender and race impact migrant trajectories as they move through different imperial, national, and liminal spaces? In...
View ArticleBirinci Dünya Savaşı ve Osmanlı Toplumu
Bölüm 479Yiğit AkınSunucu Önder Eren AkgülCihan Harbi’ne cephe gerisinden bakmak bize ne anlatır? Bu bölümde Yiğit Akın ile Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nu ve cephe gerisindeki...
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Life in the Mamluk Sultanate
narrated by Chris Gratienfeaturing Joshua White, Zoe Griffith, Amina Elbendary, and Kristina RichardsonMilitary slavery was critical to the function of most imperial states in the medieval Islamic...
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Legacies of al-Andalus
narrated by Chris Gratienfeaturing Fahad Bishara, Jeannie Miller, and Mohamad BallanDuring the early 8th century, less than a century after the creation of the first Muslim communities, Islamic armies...
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