Ezgi Basaran

Angle, Anchor, and Voice

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Angle, Anchor, and Voice is the podcast extension of my Substack, where I write on the politics of Turkey, the Middle East, Islamism, authoritarianism, geopolitics, and the shifting moral and political landscape of our time. I am Ezgi Başaran, a journalist and academic from Istanbul, now based in Oxford. I hold an MPhil and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where I also teach Middle East politics. I am the author of two books, Frontline Turkey and The New Spirit of Islamism . Published occasionally, sometimes every other week, the podcast will feature conversations with scholars, expe...

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Interview with Faisal Devji: Islam as an actor, an agent, a protagonist in history is dying. 02.07.2026 50:02

This week I come to you in podcast form as I promised earlier. I interviewed Faisal Devji, a top historian and a public intellectual. He is the Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. He is the author of some of the most original books written on Muslim political thought in the past two decades, among them The Impossible Indian, on Gandhi, and Musli...

Interview with Nathalie Tocci : Turkey is neither a baddie, nor a goodie for Europe 14.06.2026 29:35

This week I am including an interview in podcast form in Angle, Anchor and Voice . The reason is really simple: to let you hear the experts speak directly to you. My hope is that you come away from each conversation holding a better-formed version of the question that drew you in, rather than a neater version of its answer. For this opening conversation I could not have asked for a more fitting s...