Ottoman Mecca and the Indian Ocean Hajj
with Michael Christopher Low hosted by Sam Dolbee | In the Hijaz, the Ottoman Empire managed not only Mecca and Medina--the two holiest cities in Islam--but also port cities of the Red Sea w...
7 Apr 20210s
The Stage Turk in Early Modern English Drama
with Ambereen Dadabhoy hosted by Maryam Patton and Chris Gratien | William Shakespeare's lifetime overlapped with the height of Ottoman prowess on the world stage, which is partly why so m...
4 Mar 20210s
Musical Archives of the Midwest Mahjar
with Richard Breaux | Richard Breaux needed a hobby. He began collecting 78 rpm records as a break from his work as a professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies at University of Wisconsin-La C...
22 Feb 20210s
Recovering God's Intent in the Modern Age
with Monica Ringer hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | What is Islamic modernism, and how did authors of this movement position themselves vis-á-vis other 19th century intellectual movements? In ...
28 Jan 20210s
Paraskevi Kyrias, Albania, and the US at the Paris Peace Conference
with Nevila Pahumi hosted by Susanna Ferguson | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of internati...
21 Jan 20210s
Zeinab'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 ...
28 Sep 20200s
Travel Images Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire
Episode 473 with Elisabeth Fraser hosted by Emily Neumeier For centuries, people have been documenting their travels with images, which purportedly function as visual evidence for someone’s exp...
25 Aug 20200s
The Life and Times of Sultan Selim I
Episode 472 with Alan Mikhail hosted by Sam Dolbee 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 t...
18 Aug 20200s
