Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire | Mostafa Minawi

E540 | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman Empire? In this episode Mostafa Minawi answers these questions by focusing on the lives of two Arab-Ottoman Imperialists from the same family in Damascus, the al-'Azm or Azamzade family. By recounting their lives, excavating their writings, and narrating how their descendants remember them, Minawi explores questions of belonging, race and ethnicity, and the emotional world of a family divided by the fracturing of an centuries-old empire. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/minawi.html Mostafa Minawi is an associate professor of History and the director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies initiative at Cornell University. Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq CREDITS Episode No. 540 Release Date: 28 March 2023 Recording Location: MESA 2022, Denver, Colorado Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan Music: Katibim by Safiye Aliye and Banat Iskandaria by Mohammed El-Bakkar Images and bibliography courtesy of Mostafa Minawi