Refik Halit: A Life of Opposition
with Christine Philliou hosted by Sam Dolbee and Brittany White | Refik Halit Karay (1889-1965) was a writer, bureaucrat, and political exile whose life spanned the end of the Ottoman Empi...
16 Juli 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 Juni 20210s
Portraits of Unbelonging
with Zeynep Gürsel | The Ottoman archives contain just over a hundred photographs that look like old family portraits, but they were created for an entirely different purpose. They documen...
9 Juni 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
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 Mars 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
