Orientalism in the Ottoman Empire

Orientalism in the Ottoman Empire

Episode 399
with Zeynep Çelik hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Matthew Ghazarian
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How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book 'Orientalism' by Edward Said forty years after its publication, our guest Zeynep Çelik discusses the ways in which urban, art, and architectural historians have grappled with representations of the Ottomans by Europeans and representations of Ottomans by Ottomans themselves. Telling us about a number of paintings, monuments, scholarly writings and stories, she argues that Orientalism is still relevant and with us wherever we go.
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