
The Turkishness Contract
with Barış Ünlü hosted by Chris Gratien and Kubra Sagir | What does it mean to be Turkish? In this episode, we examine that question with sociologist Barış Ünlü. In The Turkishness Contract...
16 Mars 0s

A Confederate General in the Ottoman Capital
with Elizabeth Varon hosted by Chris Gratien | After the US Civil War, some leaders of the defeated Confederacy followed unusual trajectories, perhaps none more so than James Longstreet, wh...
3 Mars 0s

Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization
with Esmat Elhalaby hosted by Susanna Ferguson | How did Palestine become central to anti-imperial movements and thought in the global south? In this episode, Esmat Elhalaby asks how Ara...
11 Feb 0s

Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship
with Sophia Balakian hosted by Brittany White and Chris Gratien | The word "refugee" might conjure images of families devastated by war fleeing their homeland. But what happens when those w...
22 Jan 0s

A British Burlesque Artist in Belle Époque Cairo
featuring Gwendolyn Collaço with Andras Riedlmayer and Paul Drummond | While killing time at the Booksellers' Row in Westminster, historian and curator Gwendolyn Collaço stumbled on a...
9 Jan 0s

Osmanlı’nın Bağdat’taki Son Yılları
Emine Şahin Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bağdat, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu için coğrafi uzaklığına rağmen merkezî idarenin vazgeçilmez vilayetlerinden biriydi. Tanzimat’tan itibaren bu önem, yalnızca askerî...
25 Dec 20250s

Pamphlets and Polemics in the 17th-Century Ottoman Empire
with Nir Shafir hosted by Maryam Patton | The seventeenth century has often been characterized as a period of disorder and religious polemics in the Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, Nir ...
6 Dec 20250s

A Sea of Sorcery: Roundtable with Shannon Chakraborty
produced by Shireen Hamza and featuring Fahad Bishara, KD Thompson, Liana Saif, Mahmood Kooria, Rebecca Hankins, and Samantha Pellegrino | What could historians have to say about a fantasy...
19 Nov 20250s





















