Writing the History of Palestine and the Palestinians | Beshara Doumani
170. Palestine and Its FragmentsHistorians face numerous challenges when attempting to excavate the Palestinian past. Palestinians are often erased from the landscape and their voices are wiped from...
View ArticleÂb-ı Müncemid: Osmanlı'da buz üretimi | Burcu Kurt
171. Buz, Bira ve BakteriSoğutma teknolojisinden önce dahi, kar ve buz gerek Osmanlı sarayı tarafından, gerekse halk tarafından oldukça kullanılan bir meta idi. Bu podcastımızda Burcu Kurt ile...
View ArticleMigrant Workers in Ottoman Anatolia | Chris Gratien
172. Mobility and Class in AdanaThe nineteenth century was a period when world empires sought to settle nomads and immigrants in the countryside for the purposes of encouraging cultivation and...
View ArticleOsmanlı’da Tütün İşçileri | Can Nacar
173. Dumanın Ucunda Yükselen MücadeleOndokuzuncu yüzyılda gelişen üretim teknolojisiyle, sigaraya yönelik rağbet tütün üretiminde büyük bir artışa yol açtı. Osmanlı’nın son döneminde gerek yerel...
View ArticleEducation, Politics, and the Life of Zabel Yessayan | Jennifer Manoukian
174. The Gardens of SilihdarThe late 19th century was a time of intellectual and cultural flourishing for the Armenian community in Constantinople, as a new generation of Armenian thinkers traveled...
View ArticleSyrian University Students and the Impacts of War | Keith Watenpaugh
175. War's "Lost Generation"The war in Syria has displaced millions of people, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and disrupted the education of countless students. In this interview, Keith...
View ArticleOsmanlı Toplumunda Çocukluk | Yahya Araz
176. Osmanlı'da Çocuk Kimdi?Osmanlı'da çocukluk algısının olup olmadığı son dönem tarih yazıcılığında sıkça sorulan sorular arasındadır. Bu bölümde Yahya Araz bize çocukların sadece küçük insanlar...
View ArticleSaharan Jews in French Algeria | Sarah Stein
Crosslisted from tajineThe 1870 Crémieux Decree extended French citizenship to most, but not all, of Algeria's Jewish population. The Jews of the M'zab Valley were excluded from this legislation. As...
View ArticleSociety and Politics in Ottoman Iraq | Dina Khoury
178. From Mosul to BaghdadIraq was located on the periphery of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, as the main interface between the Ottoman and Safavid realms, it was also a region of tremendous importance...
View ArticleOsmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Gizli Hristiyanlar | Zeynep Türkyılmaz
Hristiyan, Müslüman, Yahudi gibi kesin hatlarla birbirinden ayrılmış kimliklerin hüküm sürdüğü çağımızın aksine Osmanlı toplumunda özellikle devlet gücünün erişmediği yerlerde bu kimlikler arasında...
View ArticleLaw and Order in Late Ottoman Egypt | Khaled Fahmy
How have the immense transformations of the nineteenth century impacted Egyptian state and society? Our guest Dr. Khaled Fahmy has devoted much of his work to the study of that very question in the...
View ArticleSlavery and Manumission in Ottoman Galata | Nur Sobers-Khan
The legal and social environments surrounding slavery and manumission during the early modern period varied from place to place and profession to profession. In this episode, Nur Sobers-Khan presents...
View ArticleMissionaries and the Making of the Muslim Brotherhood | Beth Baron
E182 | In this episode, Beth Baron discusses the historical context of the Muslim Brotherhood's rise during the interwar period and how the organization's activities and goals were shaped by the...
View ArticleAn Andalusi in Fatimid Egypt | Sumaiya Hamdani
E183| The story of the twelfth-century scholar Umaya b. `Abd al-`Aziz Abu al-Salt al-Dani al-Ishbili starts in al-Andalus but moves eastward, to Fatimid Cairo and Zirid Tunisia. His movement across the...
View ArticleYeni Çağ Osmanlı Hukuk Sistemi'nde Kadın Mülkiyet Hakları | Hadi Hosainy
Kadı'nın KadınıE184 | Hadi Hosainy ile 17. yüzyıl İstanbulu'nda kadın mülkiyet hakları üzerine konuştuğumuz bu podcastımızda kadınların hukuki yollara başvurarak nasıl kendilerini koruduklarına ve...
View ArticleTurks Across Empires | James Meyer
Pan-Turkism rose to prominence as a political ideology during the early twentieth century, heavily influenced by Muslim intellectuals that traveled between the Russian and Ottoman spheres. For many of...
View ArticleNew Perspectives on Medieval Anatolia | Sara Nur Yıldız
E186 | Students of Ottoman history might tend to think of the Medieval Period in Anatolia as a precursor to the Ottoman, in other words, reading the region's medieval past through the teleological lens...
View ArticleKurdish Alevi Music and Migration | Ozan Aksoy
187 | The songs and melodies of the Turkey's Alevi communities derive from a long history of song-making in Anatolia that is embedded in local geographies and indelibly tied to notions of worship and...
View ArticleIllicit Sex in Ottoman and French Algeria | Aurelie Perrier
E188 | The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by Edward Said in Orientalism. In this episode, Dr. Aurelie Perrier discusses...
View ArticleCultural Policy and Branding in Turkey | Aslı Iğsız
E189 | Countries, much like companies, must seek to present a certain image to the outside world in order to achieve political and economic goals. As our guest, Aslı Iğsız, demonstrates, this...
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