The Catastrophic Success of the Armenian Tanzimat
with Richard Antaramian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire's many geographies and communities? This e...
4 Maj 20220s
A New History of The Eastern Question
with Ozan Ozavci hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did Ottoman statesmen and su...
23 Apr 20220s
Moriscos and the Early Modern Mediterranean
Mayte Green-Mercado hosted by Brittany White | In 1609, King Phillip III of Spain signed an edict to expel a community known as the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula. The Moriscos were Mu...
11 Apr 20220s
Scholarly Salons in 16th-Century Damascus
with Helen Pfeifer hosted by Maryam Patton | In 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo and with it, the Arabophone lands of the Mamluk Sultanate. Suddenly, scores of learned scholars who had be...
27 Mars 20220s
An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
with Chris Gratien hosted by Susanna Ferguson | How did ordinary Ottoman subjects experience the momentous changes that made our modern world? This episode explores that question through t...
11 Mars 20220s
The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier
with Carlos Grenier hosted by Maryam Patton | How did one learn to be a good Muslim in the early 15th century? In newly conquered Ottoman lands where Christians and converts lived side by s...
4 Feb 20220s
Dear Palestine
with Shay Hazkani hosted by Sam Dolbee | The 1948 War resulted in the creation of the state of Israel and the Nakba of 750,000 Palestinian refugees. In Dear Palestine, Shay Hazkani sheds ne...
29 Nov 20210s
