Ottoman History Podcast

E493 | Nazik al-Mala'ika (1923-2007) is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Arabic poetry. Born in Baghdad, she wrote about varied topics, ranging from the 1947 cholera epidemic in Egypt to the rise of communism in Iraq to a nighttime train ride. She pioneered what became known as "free verse," a form at once innovative but also based upon older metrical structures. Emily Drumsta has...

E492 | | Bu bölümde Dr. Buket Kitapçı Bayrı ile 2019’da Brill yayınevinden çıkan "Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)" başlıklı kitabı üzerine söyleşiyoruz. Bayrı bu çalışmasında, orta çağ Anadolu’sunda Türkçe yazılmış Battalname ve Danişmendname gibi kahramanları savaşçı ve Saltukname gibi kahramanı Abdalan-ı Rum’u derv...

E491 | What is Islamic modernism, and how did authors of this movement position themselves vis-á-vis other 19th century intellectual movements? In this episode, we examine how Islamic modernism was more than a product of 19th century social and political reforms or even an attempt at using Islamic language to justify such reforms. Rather, Islamic modernism was a substantive theological reform move...

E490 | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School...

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E479 | Cihan Harbi’ne cephe gerisinden bakmak bize ne anlatır? Bu bölümde Yiğit Akın ile Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nu ve cephe gerisindeki toplumun savaşı ve seferberlik politikalarını nasıl deneyimlediğini konuştuk. Yiğit Akın lisans eğitimini ODTÜ Makina Mühendisliği’nde, yüksek lisansını Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nde tamamladı. 2011 yılında Ohio State Üniversi...

E478 | How do social categories like gender and race impact migrant trajectories as they move through different imperial, national, and liminal spaces? In this episode, we explore this question through the incredible journey of Zeinab Ameen, one of many Syrian migrants featured in the work of our guest Randa Tawil. Zeinab Ameen was born in late Ottoman Lebanon. Like hundreds of thousands of other...

E477 | Bu bölümde Dr. Toygun Altıntaş ile Ermeni siyasi aktivistleri ve devrimcilerinin 1880 ve 90'lı yıllarda Doğu ve Orta Anadolu'daki faaliyetleri üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Altıntaş'ın II. Abdülhamid dönemi politikalarıyla Ermeni devrimci hareketi arasındaki ilişkiye odaklanan çalışması, bu hareketin Osmanlı toplumunun farklı kesimleri ve uluslararası aktörlerle olan çok yönlü ve karmaşık etkile...

E476 | The Dodecanese Islands in the Southeastern Aegean Sea are part of Greece today, and for centuries, they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. But for a brief period, Italy governed the Dodecanese Islands under the Fascist government of Mussolini. In this podcast, we talk to historian Valerie McGuire about the history of Italian Empire and the ignored importance of the Dodecanese Islands wi...

E475 | Nationalism is often seen as a natural political desire or as a modal form spread around the world by modern technologies and conditions, such as literacy or print media. In this episode, Aaron Jakes reframes the history of the nation-state by looking at the British occupation of Egypt which began in 1882. He shows how the specific conditions of colonial rule, as well as the ups and downs o...

E474 | In part two of our interview with Cemal Kafadar, we discuss how history writing might play an emancipatory role in the present. Turkey as a whole and Istanbul in particular seen grand urban development projects in the past decade, and we discuss how they have become flashpoints of protest for a number of reasons, including historical preservation. Kafadar links this issue to the broader que...

Episode 2 of our series "The Making of the Islamic World" deals with the history of the first two imperial dynasties: the Umayyads and the Abbasids.

E473 | For centuries, people have been documenting their travels with images, which purportedly function as visual evidence for someone’s experience far from home. This was no less the case for Europeans touring through Ottoman lands, who created a whole industry selling pictures from their time abroad. In this episode, Elisabeth Fraser explains how Western European artists at the turn of the eigh...

E472 | Sultan 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 episode, we're exploring the life and times of Selim I in an entirely new light by placing the Islamic world at the center of the momentous events of the turn of the 16th century. We talk with historian Alan Mikhail about his new book God's Shado...

E471 | David Ohannessian is one of the foremost pioneers of the ceramic styles associated today with the city of Jerusalem, but the remarkable story of how he ended up there has never been properly told. Born in 1884 outside of Eskişehir (modern-day Turkey), David Ohannessian became a master in the iconic Kütahya style of Ottoman ceramics. He worked on important architectural projects of the Ottom...

E470 | Son elli yılda Türkiye’de tarih yazımında neler değişti? Osmanlı tarihi çalışmalarında hangi kaynaklar, hangi yöntemlerle kullanılıyor? Bu bölümde Edhem Eldem ile son kitabı Mitler, Gerçekler ve Yöntem: Osmanlı Tarihinde Aklıma Takılanlar üzerinden tarihçiliği ve Türkiye’de tarih yazımı üzerine konuşuyoruz. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/07/edhem-eldem.html Edhem Eldem Boğaziçi...

E469 | Resettling refugee families sounds like a straightforwardly noble goal. But what happens when a particular definition of the family is used to restrict opportunities for resettlement? In this episode, we speak to anthropologist Sophia Balakian about how the concerns of governments and refugee organizations with "family composition fraud" have impacted refugee families that do not fit a norm...