Layers of History in Downtown Beirut
with Rayya Haddad | The modern history of Beirut has been defined by periods of intense construction, destruction, and reconstruction. In this episode, we explore the layers of history in ...
29 Jul 20210s
Galata and the Early Modern Mediterranean World
with Fariba Zarinebaf hosted by Sam Dolbee and Nir Shafir | In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf discusses the history of Galata and the early modern Mediterranean more broadly. Beginning ...
23 Jul 20210s
The Environmental Origins of Ottoman Iraq
with Faisal Husain hosted by Chris Gratien | The Ottoman conquests of the 16th century represented a watershed moment in many senses. Our guest Faisal Husain explains the most literal of t...
27 Jun 20210s
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
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
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
David Ohannessian: Art, Exile, and the Legacies of Genocide
Episode 471 with Sato Moughalian hosted by Sam Dolbee David Ohannessian is one of the foremost pioneers of the ceramic styles associated today with the city of Jerusalem, but the remarkable stor...
13 Aug 20200s
