Ottoman History Podcast

E584 | What is Islamic architecture? In this follow-up to our ten-part seires on The Making of the Islamic World, we explore that question with Prof. Abbey Stockstill, author of Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib. Our conversation centers on the imperial city of Marrakesh, which was shaped by two successive dynasties — the Almoravids and the Almohads — with two competing visions of Muslim religious and political life that left an indelible imprint on the Maghreb region from the Sahara to al-Andalus. As Prof. Stockstill explains, understanding the architectural legacy of these dynasties extends far beyond the confines of monumental features of mosques and minarets. Natural landscapes and agricultural spaces played an equally vital role in the built environment of medieval Morocco, which in turn influenced the development of architecture in what is now southern Spain during the last centuries of Islamic rule. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/04/architecture-and-environment-in.html Abbey Stockstill is Associate Professor and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair of Architectural History at UVA. Her book, Marrakesh & the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghreb, traces the development of Marrakesh in the twelfth century as a new kind of metropolis in the Islamic west, bridging multivalent identities through a sensitive manipulation of the surrounding environment. Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. CREDITS Episode No. 584 Release Date: 25 April 2026 Recording Location: University of Virginia Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: Komiku - Un désert; Badlands by Silicon Transmitter; TRG Banks - Across the mountainous region Bibliography and images courtesy of Abbey Stockstill at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/04/architecture-and-environment-in.html

E583 | Bu bölümde Dr. Görkem Akgöz’ün 2025 Hagley Prize in Business History ödülünü alan “In the Shadow of War and Empire Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey” başlıklı kitabı üzerine konuşuyoruz. Akgöz’ün “Türk Manchester”ı olarak bilinen Bakırköy Bez Fabrikası’nı Osmanlı döneminde kuruluşundan itibaren odağa alan araştırması devletçiliği yalnızca bir kalkınma modeli değil, emek ve sınıf ilişkilerini yeniden kuran bir siyasal proje olarak düşünmeye davet ediyor. Erken Cumhuriyet Türkiye’sinde fabrika işçisi olmanın ne anlama geldiğini tartıştığımız bu sohbette, dilekçeler ve talepler üzerinden şekillenen aktif emek siyasetinin, devletin idealize ettiği düzen ile fabrikanın gerçekliği arasındaki gerilimleri nasıl açığa çıkardığını ele alıyoruz. Bu bağlamda, nostaljik anlatıların ötesine geçip erken Cumhuriyet sanayileşmesini disiplin, kontrol ve müzakere ekseninde sorgularken, Osmanlı ve Türkiye sanayi kapitalizminin gelişimi hakkında yeni sorular soruyoruz. Bölümün sonunda ise Akgöz’ün arşiv ve yazıyla kurduğu ilişkinin tarihsel düşünme ve anlatımını nasıl dönüştürdüğüne değiniyoruz.

E582 | What does it mean to be Turkish? In this episode, we examine that question with sociologist Barış Ünlü. In The Turkishness Contract, Ünlü studies the historical process by which Turkishness developed through a contractual relationship between the state and its citizens. In our conversation, we explore the late Ottoman roots of this process, as well as how the experiences of non-Turkish religious and ethnolinguistic groups shed light onto the often unspoken and unconscious behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that govern Turkishness. We also discuss the book's wide reception in Turkish and how in its new English translation, Ünlü connects the Turkish experience to global perspectives on race and belonging in the modern world. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/turkishness-contract.html Barış Ünlü is Assistant Professor, General Faculty, in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia. His latest book is Frantz Fanon: Sömürge Düşünürü - Sömürge Devrimcisi. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2025. CREDITS Episode No. 582 Release Date: 16 March 2026 Recording Location: University of Virginia Sound production by Chris Gratien. Intro music by Korg Entertainer Keyboard. Interlude music by A.A. Aalto and closing music by Kara Güneş. Bibliography courtesy of Barış Ünlü at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/turkishness-contract.html

A bonus conversation with historian Elizabeth Varon, author of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South and many other titles, hosted by Chris Gratien, Claudrena Harold, and the graduate students of HIST 7001 at University of Virginia. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/longstreet.html

E581 | After the US Civil War, some leaders of the defeated Confederacy followed unusual trajectories, perhaps none more so than James Longstreet, who joined the Republican party and became a proponent of Southern Reconstruction and for a brief period, the Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire. In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Varon, author of a new biography of Longstreet, about the rebel-turned-diplomat's brief tenure in the Ottoman capital during the early years of Sultan Abdul Hamid II's reign, and we discuss what Longstreet's experiences reveal about America on the world stage in the shadow of the Civil War and Reconstruction. We also discuss Prof. Varon's personal connection to post-Ottoman Istanbul, as well as her new research about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who followed in Longstreet's footsteps some years later on a humanitarian mission to the Ottoman Armenians in Anatolia. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/longstreet.html Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of six books, including Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South (Simon & Schuster, 2023), which was reviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Atlantic. Varon's current project is a biography of humanitarian Clara Barton. Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. CREDITS Episode No. 581 Release Date: 3 March 2026 Recording Location: University of Virginia Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: Safiye Ayla - Katibim; Azize Tozem and Sari Recep - İstanbul'dan Ayva Da Gelir Nar Gelir; Kara Güneş - İstanbul Bibliography courtesy of Elizabeth Varon at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/03/longstreet.html

E580 | How did Palestine become central to anti-imperial movements and thought in the global south? In this episode, Esmat Elhalaby asks how Arabs and South Asians contended with the “parting gifts of empire” in the long twentieth century, often by turning to Palestine. He talks about how Arab writers in conversation with India reinvented Orientalism as a critique of empire and reinterpreted the political possibilities and limitations of Islam as a political force. We close with a discussion of Esmat’s new work on the intellectual history of Gaza, the importance of talking about “bad Palestinians,” and what it means to write history at a time of genocide. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/02/elhalaby.html Esmat Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor of Transnational History at the University of Toronto. His first book, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization was published by the University of California Press in 2025. Susanna Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world. CREDITS Episode No. 580 Release Date: 11 February 2026 Sound production by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien Special thanks to Nada Moumtaz Music: Blue Dot Sessions Bibliography courtesy of Esmat Elhalaby at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/02/elhalaby.html

E579 | The word "refugee" might conjure images of families devastated by war fleeing their homeland. But what happens when those who seek asylum abroad do not conform to that image? As Sophia Balakian argues in her new book Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship, the question is one that shapes the case of every refugee seeking a new home abroad in the United States. The Somali and Congolese migrants in her study face an intense vetting process that includes DNA testing to confirm that a refugee family forms a biological unit, creating numerous reasons by which people who have survived war and displacement may be judged "fraudulent" family units. In this episode, Balakian is back on the podcast to share an anthropologist's perspective on the history of migration and the politics of kinship in refugee resettlement. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/balakian.html Sophia Balakian is a scholar of migration and an assistant professor at George Mason University. Her book, Unsettled Families, was recognized as a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. Brittany White is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories. CREDITS Episode No. 579 Release Date: 22 January 2025 Recording Location: University of Virginia Sound production and music by Chris Gratien. Closing music by A.A. Aalto Bibliography courtesy of Sophia Balakian at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/balakian.html

E578 | While killing time at the Booksellers' Row in Westminster, historian and curator Gwendolyn Collaço stumbled on a collection of postcards from early 20th-century Egypt, some featuring the British burlesque artist Miss Kitty Lord. When she realized that the postcards were a set belonging to a single person — none other than Kitty Lord herself — the chance discovery became a research quest that culminated in an exhibition at Harvard Fine Arts Library, presenting a visual time capsule of Belle Époque Cairo that mapped the social and romantic life of a fascinating and little-known figure. In this episode from the Ottoman History Podcast vault, Collaço discusses what she uncovered about Kitty Lord through collaborations with the historian and bibliographer András Riedlmayer and memorobilia shop owner Paul Drummond, who appear in the podcast to share their side of the story. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/01/kitty-lord.html

E577 | Bağdat, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu için coğrafi uzaklığına rağmen merkezî idarenin vazgeçilmez vilayetlerinden biriydi. Tanzimat’tan itibaren bu önem, yalnızca askerî güvenlik veya sınır politikalarıyla sınırlı kalmadı; idarî modernleşme, ekonomik düzenlemeler ve toplumsal kontrol mekanizmalarının uygulandığı başlıca laboratuvarlardan biri haline geldi. II. Meşrutiyet’in ilanı ise bu denemeleri daha iddialı, daha sert ve daha merkezî bir siyasi programa dönüştürdü. Bu bölümde, Dr. Emine Şahin’le birlikte 1908–1917 arasında Bağdat’ta Osmanlı idaresinin dönüşümünü inceliyoruz. Merkezileşme politikalarının sahada nasıl uygulandığını, hangi aktörler aracılığıyla yürütüldüğünü ve yerel toplum tarafından nasıl karşılandığını tartışıyoruz. Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Emine ŞAHİN, lisans ve yüksek lisans eğitimini İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde tamamladı. Yüksek Lisans tezi “Arap gazeteci Selim Faris’in hayatı (1826-1908), faaliyetleri ve sosyal çevresi” üzerineydi. Doktorasını 2022 senesinde İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi’nde “II. Meşrutiyet Döneminde Bağdat’ta Osmanlı İdaresi (1908-1917)” başlıklı tez ile tamamladı. Çalışmalarında son dönem Osmanlı Ortadoğusu’na ağırlık vermekle birlikte modernleşme sürecinde kent tarihi, mimarlık tarihi, basın tarihi, sosyo-ekonomik tarih ve kültür tarihi üzerine de odaklandı. Akademik çalışmalarına 2017 senesinden itibaren Düzce Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde devam etmektedir. 2025 yılın TÜBA GEBİP ödülüne layık görülmüştür. Can Gümüş doktora derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nden 2025 yılında aldı. Can’ın geç dönem Osmanlı İstanbul'unda hijyen, kentsel dönüşüm ve yönetişim arasındaki bağlantıları araştıran doktora tezi, İstanbul’u sıhhileştirme çabalarının kentin kendine özgü sosyo-politik ve coğrafi bağlamı içinde farklı aktörlerin birbiriyle ilişkileri çerçevesinde gerçekleştiğini göstermeyi amaçlar. Araştırma alanları kentsel çevre tarihi, halk sağlığı tarihi ve tıp tarihini kapsamaktadır. Hâlihazırda Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde modern Türkiye tarihi dersleri veren Can, OHP ekibine 2018 yılında katılmıştır. YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 577 Yayın tarihi: 25 Aralık 2025 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Görseller ve kaynakça Emine Şahin'in müsaadesiyle: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/12/sahin.html

E576 | The seventeenth century has often been characterized as a period of disorder and religious polemics in the Ottoman Empire. In this podcast, Nir Shafir takes us inside his new book, which argues that the polemics of the early modern Ottoman world were fueled in part by changes in communication, namely the rise of short pamphlets that circulated easily in handwritten copies. Pamphlets created a new arena largely independent from the institutional centers of knowledge production where people debated everyday questions of the time about what it meant to be Muslim. In exploring the world of Ottoman pamphlets, Shafir also offers a new introduction to the nature of Ottoman education, book production, and reading practices prior to the rise of print and modern state institutions. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/12/shafir.html Nir Shafir is Associate Professor of History at University of California, San Diego. His first book, The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire (Stanford, 2024), was awarded 2025 Book Prize from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. Shafir is also a longtime contributor to the Ottoman History Podcast, formerly serving as editor-in-chief and appearing in over 50 episodes since 2013. Maryam Patton is Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Her research interests span the cultural and intellectual history of the late medieval and early modern Ottoman Empire, the history and theories of time and temporality, and cross-cultural transmission in the Mediterranean world, among others. She received her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and is preparing her first book on the Ottoman conception of time. CREDITS Episode No. 576 Release Date: 6 December 2025 Sound production by Maryam Patton Music: "Vibing Over Venus" by Kevin MacLeod

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E575 | What could historians have to say about a fantasy novel? The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, published in 2023, follows an aging mother and captain on magical adventures across the twelfth-century Indian Ocean world with her crew. It has been read widely, hitting bestseller lists in the US and being translated into eight languages. In this episode, a group of historians discusses the novel with its author, Shannon Chakraborty. Our conversation covers gender and geography, language and literature, piety and piracy, and of course, magic. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/chakraborty.html CREDITS Episode No. 575 Release Date: 16 November 2025 Sound Production by Shireen Hamza Music: O-Shin by Nyentek; Bahrain - Fidgeri: Songs of the Pearl Divers, recorded by Habib Hassan Touma, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings; Arabic Music - Music performed by men from area of Ibri (major town of Dhahirah Region) by BBC Sounds

E574 | Bu bölümde, Nurçin İleri, Emine Öztaner ve Meltem Kocaman ile elektriğin Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e uzanan süreçte gündelik yaşamı ve toplumsal ilişkileri nasıl dönüştürdüğünü tartışıyoruz. İstanbul’un ilk aydınlatma girişimlerinden sanayi tesislerine, tramvay hatlarından ev içi teknolojilere uzanan örneklerle, teknolojik yeniliklerin yalnızca kent altyapılarını değil, aynı zamanda kentlilerin yaşam tahayyüllerini de nasıl şekillendirdiğini inceliyoruz. İleri’nin derlediği Bir Cereyan Hasıl Oldu: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e İstanbul’da Elektrikli Yaşam (Tarih Vakfı, 2024) başlıklı kitabı temel alan sohbetimizde, elektriğin, bir teknik yenilik olmanın ötesinde, modernleşme, emek, toplumsal cinsiyet ve kamusal alan gibi kesişen temalar etrafında yeni bir toplumsal düzenin ve kültürel dönüşümün parçası hâline gelişini konuşuyoruz. YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 574 Kayıt yeri: Avrupa Pasajı, Beyoğlu. Yayın tarihi: 10 Kasım 2025 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Music: Paed 02 Görseller ve kaynakça konuklarımızın müsaadesiyle https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/11/cereyan.html

E573 | Comparisons are everywhere in American discussions of Middle East politics. As our guest, Perin Gürel, argues in a new book, this cultural impulse has political roots in the Cold War period. In this episode, we explore the origins of comparitivism through the lens of America's evolving relationship with Turkey and Iran over the course of the 20th century, focusing on how gender and race shaped the terms of the assymetrical relations between the US and other countries in the region. We discuss the "daddy issues" reflected in comparisons between the founding figures of the Republic of Turkey and Iran's monarchy, the changing image of Iran's empress on the global stage, and the ambivalent claims to whiteness and anti-imperialism that took shape in both countries over the course of the Cold War. Throughout the conversation, we return to a critique of comparison as a placeholder for knowledge and a political instrument wielded with varying degrees of success to further American foreign policy goals, and we reflect on how this American project has shaped how all of us conceptualize the region's major social and political questions today. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/gurel.html Perin Gürel is an associate professor of American Studies and the director of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She's the author of Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America's Wife, America's Concubine (Cambridge University Press, 2025); The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey (Columbia University Press, 2017); and the forthcoming ecofantasy novel, Laleh and the Language of the Birds (Wildling Press, 2026). Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. CREDITS Episode No. 573 Release Date: 31 October 2025 Recording Location: University of Virginia Sound production and music by Chris Gratien Bibliography and images courtesy of Perin Gürel available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/gurel.html

E572 | In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled a remarkable ethnographic and scholarly account of Greek life under Ottoman rule in his seminal Turcograecia. Though he never left his home in Tübingen, Crusius spent decades corresponding with a far-flung network of intermediaries, including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul. He annotated books and manuscripts, and even interviewed Greek Orthodox alms-seekers who passed through Germany. In this episode, Richard Calis explores how Crusius’s fascination with the so-called Ottoman Greeks sheds light on broader early modern debates about cultural and religious difference and how Greek identity became entangled with orientalist perceptions of the Ottoman world. The Ottoman Turks, both omnipresent and strangely absent in Crusius’s research, emerge in unexpected places, including in his dreams. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/calis.html Richard Calis is Assistant Professor in Intellectual History at Utrecht University. Most of his research revolves around questions of cultural exchange, and how people make sense of the world around them. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University and was a Research Fellow in History at Trinity College, Cambridge before coming to Utrecht. His first book, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius (1526-1607), was published in 2025 with Harvard University Press. Maryam Patton is Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Her research interests span the cultural and intellectual history of the late medieval and early modern Ottoman Empire, the history and theories of time and temporality, and cross-cultural transmission in the Mediterranean world, among others. She received her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and is preparing her first book on the Ottoman conception of time. CREDITS Episode No. 572 Release Date: 24 October 2025 Recording location: West Hartford, CT and Amsterdam, Netherlands Sound production by Maryam Patton Music: "Easy Lemon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons Bibliography and images courtesy of Richard Calis at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/10/calis.html

E571 | Emre Can Dağlıoğlu’nun Arapların 1915’i: Soykırım, Kimlik, Coğrafya başlıklı derlemesine (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2022) odaklanan bu bölüm, 1915’i Osmanlı ve Osmanlı sonrası Arap dünyası bağlamında ele almanın önemine işaret ediyor. Hem soykırımı hem de 1915 sonrasını bölgenin siyasal, toplumsal ve çevresel krizleri içinde konumlandıran çalışma, Arap vilayetlerine sürülen Ermenilerin karşılaştıkları politikaları, hayatta kalma stratejilerini, Arap toplumları ve coğrafyasıyla kurdukları karmaşık ilişkileri inceleyen makalelerden oluşuyor. Bu podcastte, bu çalışmaların soykırımın tarihyazımında açtığı yeni pencereleri detaylandırırken 1915’i sabit bir kırılma anı olarak görmek yerine, farklı yerel dinamikler ve ilişkiler çerçevesinde zamansal ve mekânsal olarak genişleyen bir perspektifle ele almanın imkânları üzerine de sohbet ediyoruz. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2025/03/daglioglu.html Emre Can Dağlıoğlu Stanford Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde doktora adayı. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Kültürel Çalışmalar Bölümü ve Clark Üniversitesi Holokost ve Soykırım Çalışmaları Bölümü’nde lisansüstü çalışmaları yaptı. Geç dönem Osmanlı ve Türkiye tarihinde egemen olmayan gruplar üzerinde çeşitli makaleler yayınladı. Halihazırda, geç dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda finansal kontrolün metalar, finansal ağlar, sosyo-politik ilişkiler ve çevresel dönüşüm üzerindeki etkileri üzerine çalışıyor. Ayrıca, Orta Doğu sol tarihi üzerine düşünmeyi seviyor. Nehna’nın kurucularından. Can Gümüş doktora derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nden 2025 yılında aldı. Can’ın geç dönem Osmanlı İstanbul'unda hijyen, kentsel dönüşüm ve yönetişim arasındaki bağlantıları araştıran doktora tezi, İstanbul’u sıhhileştirme çabalarının kentin kendine özgü sosyo-politik ve coğrafi bağlamı içinde farklı aktörlerin birbiriyle ilişkileri çerçevesinde gerçekleştiğini göstermeyi amaçlar. Araştırma alanları kentsel çevre tarihi, halk sağlığı tarihi ve tıp tarihini kapsamaktadır. Hâlihazırda Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde modern Türkiye tarihi dersleri veren Can, OHP ekibine 2018 yılında katılmıştır. Önder Eren Akgül Northwestern Üniversitesi Keyman Modern Türk Çalışmaları programında doktora sonrası araştırmacısı ve geç Osmanlı döneminde kriz, kapitalizm ve mülksüzleştirme nizamı üzerine kitap çalışmasına odaklanıyor. Doktora derecesini 2022 yılında Georgetown Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünden aldı. YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 571 Kayıt yeri: Kurtuluş, İstanbul Yayın tarihi: 13 Mart 2025 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Müzik: Komitas, Al Ayloughs and Komitas, Hov Arek

E570 | In the 1890s, Ottoman Crete descended into communal violence between its Christian and Muslim inhabitants, abetted by foreign powers and Ottoman officials alike. In this episode, Uğur Z. Peçe explains how this conflict--which he calls a civil war--came about, what it meant in people's intimately connected everyday lives, and how it shaped the end of the Ottoman Empire. In particular, Cretan refugees resettled elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire became a key part of various protest movements including boycotts. Uğur speaks with us about these topics while traveling through present-day Crete, considering, among other things, the unexpected connections between the Eastern Black Sea and Crete, the island's distinctive landscape, and snails. For more https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/12/pece.html Uğur Z. Peçe is an assistant professor of history at Lehigh University, where he teaches classes on empire, migration, revolution, and the Middle East. He is the author of Island and Empire: Civil War, Displacement, and Protest in the Ottoman Mediterranean (Stanford University Press, 2024). Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 570 Release Date: 29 December 2024 Recording location: Chamaizi, Sougia, Chania Sound production by Sam Dolbee and Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route,"ΓΙΑΛΕΛΕΛΙ,""Chiaroscuro," "Big Road of Burravoe" Images and bibliography courtesy of Uğur Z. Peçe available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/12/pece.html

E569 | What does the history of modern Arab political thought look like from the perspective of women authors? In this podcast, we sit down with longtime Ottoman History Podcast contributor Susanna Ferguson to explore this question, which animates her new book Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought. Previous scholarship has focused on the role of women in discussing the roles of women, but as Prof. Ferguson argues, women writers of the 19th and 20th century can also be studied as producers of social theory and commentators on the important matters of their era. In our conversation, we use the lens of public discourse about child-rearing or tarbiyah as a window onto ideas about a wide range of topics, including morality, labor, and democratic governance. In doing so, we consider the importance of seeing the Arab world as a source of portable ideas about modern society, as opposed to a merely passive recipient of Western modernity. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/sferg.html Suzie Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world. She is the author of Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought (Stanford University Press). Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. CREDITS Episode No. 569 Release Date: 30 September 2024 Recording location: Istanbul Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: Chad Crouch - Pacing Images and bibliography courtesy of Susanna Ferguson available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/sferg.html

E568 | Across the 19th century Arab East, or Mashriq, there were two simultaneous but seemingly contradictory trends afoot. On the one hand, new ways of understanding religion, science, and community, often associated with the intellectual 'revival' of the Arab Nahda, ushered in new forms of thought and more fluid subjectivities. On the other hand, movements emerged to reinscribe, intensify, and uphold stricter communal boundaries between religious groups. How did these two trends coexist? The life and thought of Mikha'il Mishaqa (1800-1888) offer some answers. Mishaqa was a doctor, merchant, moneylender, and writer who was raised in Greek Catholicism, lost his faith, regained it, and then converted to Protestantism. Through his many-sided life, his voluminous writings, and his obstinate commitment to 'reason', Mishaqa offers an example of how a single life could integrate these seemingly contradictory trends of 19th century Arab East. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/peter-hill.html Peter Hill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanites in Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He works on the modern Middle East, specialising in the Arab world in the long nineteenth century. His research focuses on political thought and practice, the politics of religion, and translation and intercultural exchanges. He also has a strong interest in comparative and global history. Matthew Ghazarian is a postdoctoral associate in the Program on Agrarian Studies at Yale University. His research and teaching focus on environmental history, political economy, and communal conflict in the Ottoman Empire and the South Caucasus. Ghazarian’s current project examines the links between material conditions - like debt, drought, and hunger - and widening communal divides in the late Ottoman Empire. CREDITS Episode No. 568 Release Date: 16 September 2024 Recording location: Tekke Yokuşu Studio in Istanbul Sound production by Matthew Ghazarian Music: Lili Labassi, "Mazal Haye Mazal" Images, bibliography, and captions courtesy of Peter Hill. Special thanks to Ozan Karakaş for use of the Tekke Yokuşu Studio

E567 | Passports are objects at once momentous and mundane. How did they come about in the late Ottoman Empire? In this episode, İlkay Yılmaz discusses the history of this technology, and how the state effort to manage information about identity and control people's movement emerged alongside international police efforts to control anarchist and revolutionary subjects between different empires in the late nineteenth century. With this new technology, the ability to control people's movement also became contingent on the photograph and connected to late Ottoman politics of migration and ethnicity. She also discusses how these state efforts to limit people's movement through the technology of the passport have echoes in the present, even in her own life. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/yilmaz.html İlkay Yılmaz is a DFG-funded research associate at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. She has held numerous fellowships, including at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, and was previously an Assistant Professor at Istanbul University, where she completed her MA and PhD. Her research has appeared in Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Journal of Photography, among others. Her book is Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 (Syracuse University Press). Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 567 Release Date: 5 September 2024 Recording location: Nashville / Berlin Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Sombra," "Petite Route," "Big Road of Burravoe" Bibliography courtesy of İlkay Yılmaz available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/yilmaz.html

E566 | During the late 19th and early 20th century, tens of millions of migrants crossed the seas, settling in the Americas and beyond in a mass migration event that reshaped politics and economies throughout the world. In this episode, we focus on one of the most ignored groups within the history of those momentous events: North Caucasian Muslims. As our guest, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, explains, North Caucasian refugees fleeing Russian expansion became a large segment of the Ottoman migrant (muhacir) population and in turn, became a major new demographic component, constituting about 5% of the empire's citizens by WWI. Under the Muhacirin Commission created to facilitate their movements, they settled in remote provinces, from the edges of the Syrian desert to the plateaus of Central Anatolia, founding what would become major cities like Amman (modern-day Jordan) and constructing new diasporic identities in the process. As we discuss, these migrations not only changed the millions of people who became Ottoman refugees during the empire's last decade and their communities back home. They changed the nature of the Ottoman state itself. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/08/hamed-troyansky.html Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. Can Gümüş is a doctoral candidate and researcher at Boğaziçi University's Atatürk Institute. Her dissertation examines the intersections of public health and urbanization in the late Ottoman Empire. CREDITS Episode No. 566 Release Date: 29 August 2024 Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: Aitua; A.A. Aalto Bibliography and images courtesy of Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/08/hamed-troyansky.html

E565 | In 1866, a series of unexpected events led to an Ottoman imam by the name of Abd al-Rahman al-Baghdadi ending up in Rio de Janeiro. In this episode, Ali Kulez explains how he got there, and what happened when al-Baghdadi became close with enslaved and free Afro-Brazilian Muslims, and attempted to teach them his vision of Islamic orthodoxy. In addition to exploring themes of Islam and race in Brazil, Kulez also traces how the translation of al-Baghdadi's travel narrative can offer a window onto the history of South-South relations into the present. In closing, he discusses the challenge of evaluating past solidarities and differentiating them from those we might want to see. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/04/kulez.html Ali Kulez is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College, where he specializes in the literary and cultural history of modern Latin America. Dr. Kulez is currently working on two book projects: he is completing a manuscript on the intersections of food and identity in Cuban and Brazilian literature, and starting another on Brazil’s cultural encounters with Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. His work has appeared in, among other places, Luso-Brazilian Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, CR: The New Centennial Review, and Middle Eastern Literatures. Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 565 Release Date: 11 April 2024 Recording location: Beşiktaş, Istanbul Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Big Road of Burravoe," "Chiaroscuro" Images, bibliography, and captions courtesy of Ali Kulez available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/04/kulez.html

E563 | As an Arab city inside the 1948 borders of Israel, Nazareth defies many of the general narratives of both Israeli and Palestinian histories. But as our guest Leena Dallasheh explains, that does not mean that Nazareth is necessarily an exception. In fact, its paradoxical survival is key to understanding the history of modern Palestinian politics. In this conversation, we chart the history of Nazareth's rise from provincial town to Palestinian cultural capital. We consider the reasons why Nazareth survived the Nakba, and we explore the important role of Palestinian communities in the years before and decades after the foundation of Israel. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/03/dallasheh.html Leena Dallasheh is an independent scholar, and a board member at PARC — Palestine American Research Center . Her research focuses on the history of Palestine/Israel, with a particular interest in Palestinians who became citizens of Israel in 1948. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the social and political history of Nazareth from 1940 to 1966, tracing how Palestinians who remained in Israel in 1948 negotiated their incorporation in the state, affirming their rights as citizens and their identity as Palestinian. She has published articles and reviews in IJMES, JPS, AHR, and edited collections. She has also been engaged in academic and public conversations on Palestine/Israel, and has been interviewed and published in various media outlets. She has held several academic positions, the last of which was associate professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. She received her PhD in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at NYU. Before coming to NYU, she received a law degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. CREDITS Episode No. 563 Release Date: 24 March 2024 Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: Chad Crouch Bibliography courtesy of Leena Dallasheh

E562 | Bu bölümde, Dr. Şeyma Afacan ile geç Osmanlı’da biyolojik materyalizm, psikolojinin gelişimi ve Afacan’ın bir “ezber bozma alanı” olarak nitelediği duygular tarihi üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Osmanlı’da materyalizm tartışmalarının eksikliklerine işaret eden Afacan, beden, duygu ve üretkenlik arasındaki ilişkiye odaklanmanın bu çalışmalara sunabileceği olası katkılara dikkati çekiyor ve biyolojik materyalizm tartışmasının her şeyden evvel “psikolojik bir tartışma” olduğunu öne sürüyor. Afacan tarih yazımında duyguları analitik bir kategori olarak kullanmanın imkânlarını ve kısıtlarını da detaylandırıyor. Afacan’ın bu söyleşide çizdiği genel çerçevenin bir izleğini Toplumsal Tarih’in Ocak 2024 sayısı için derlediği dosyadaki çalışmalarda görmek de mümkün. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/03/afacan.html Şeyma Afacan, Kırklareli Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümünde Dr. Öğretim Üyesidir. Doktorasını “Ruh ve Duygular Hakkında: Osmanlı Bireyini Modern Psikoloji ile Kavramsallaştırmak” adlı teziyle 2017 yılında Oxford Üniversitesi, Tarih Bölümü, Tıp Tarihi Merkezinde (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine) tamamladı. 2017-2018 yıllarında Max Planck Enstitüsü, Duygular Tarihi Merkezinde (Center for the History of Emotions) doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak çalıştı. Afacan halen 19. yüzyıl Osmanlısı’nda modern psikoloji ve duygu politikaları üzerine çalışmaktadır. Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk Enstitüsü’nde doktora öğrencisi ve araştırma görevlisi. Doktora tezi, geç Osmanlı İstanbulu'nda kentleşmenin hijyen ve arındırma pratikleriyle kesişimini inceliyor. YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 562 Kayıt yeri: İstanbul Yayın tarihi: 10 Mart 2024 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş Müzik: Abdullah Yüce, Bu Ne Sevgi Ah Bu Ne Izdırap

E561 | What were the economic forces that drove the violence of the Armenian genocide? In this episode, historian Ümit Kurt speaks about his research on the role of property in the history of the dispossession and deportation of Aintab’s Armenian community. Despite archival silences, he reveals the central role of legal mechanisms and local propertied elites in these processes. In closing, he discusses the legacies of the “economics of genocide” into the present day, and how his research has been received. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/02/kurt.html Ümit Kurt is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. He is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences (History) and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of award-winning book, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021) and the co-author of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn, 2017). He is now working on his third book manuscript project on the global patterns of mass violence in the Ottoman borderlands in the 1860s-1920s. Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 561 Release Date: 26 February 2024 Recording location: Clovis, California Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Sombra," "Big Road of Burravoe" Images and bibliography courtesy of Ümit Kurt available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/02/kurt.html

E559 | Set between elite households and a Sufi lodge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's 1922 novel Nur Baba was a provocative take on competing notions of religion, morality, gender, and romance in the dynamic world of late Ottoman Istanbul. In this episode, we speak to Brett Wilson, author of the first-ever English translation of Karaosmanoğlu's controversial classic. We discuss Yakup Kadri's ethnographic approach to his subject, its mixed reception, and the insights it offers about modern Turkish culture. We also discuss the joys of translation, and its importance for students of Ottoman history today. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nur-baba.html M. Brett Wilson is Associate Professor of History at Central European University in Vienna and the Director of the Center of Eastern Mediterranean Studies. He is the author of Translating the Qur’an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2014) and the editor and translator of Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul (Routledge, 2023). Brittany White is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories. CREDITS Episode No. 559 Release Date: 25 January 2024 Sound production by Brittany White Music: Chad Crouch; A.A. Aalto Bibliography and images courtesy of Brett Wilson available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nur-baba.html

E558 | 1948 marks the year that Israel gained independence, and for Palestinians, an experience of mass exile known as the Nakba. The displacement of Palestinians and subsequent conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors had immense consequences. But how did the Palestinian Arabs who remained and make up roughly 20% of Israel's population today fit into a Middle East region defined by the "Arab-Israeli conflict?" In this podcast, we speak to Maha Nassar, whose first book Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World casts new light on a community historically marginalized both within Israel and within broader discussions of contemporary Arab history. We discuss how Palestinian citizens of Israel were cut off from friends, relatives, and compatriots after 1948, and how they used literature as means of forging new transnational connections during the era of Arab nationalism and decolonization. Through the insights born out of their paradoxical experiences, Arab-Israeli authors of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction would come to occupy a prominent place not only within both Arab and Israeli literature but also global political thought. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nassar.html Dr. Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural history of Palestine and the modern Arab world. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017), examines how Palestinian intellectuals inside the Green Line connected to global decolonization movements through literary and journalistic writings. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, The Arab Studies Journal, and elsewhere. Dr. Nassar’s analysis pieces have appeared widely, including in The Conversation and +972 Magazine. As a 2022 non-resident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, she joined FMEP in developing public programming for their Occupied Thoughts podcast. Dr. Nassar’s current book project examines the global history of Palestine’s people, with a focus on religious pluralism in Palestinian society. Suzie Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world. CREDITS Episode No. 558 Release Date: 8 January 2024 Recording location: Tucson, AZ; Northampton, MA Sound production by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien Music: Chad Crouch - Charcoal; A.A. Aalto - Canyon Images and bibliography courtesy of Maha Nassar available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nassar.html

E556 | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark (also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as Gece Çökerken). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html Avner Wishnitzer is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His work focuses mainly on the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. He is the author of Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a history of Ottoman imagination in the long nineteenth century and his historical novel, New Order (in Hebrew), is coming out very soon Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 556 Release Date: 12 December 2023 Recording location: Nashville and Tel Aviv Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Big Road of Burravoe," "Chiaroscuro" Images and bibliography courtesy of Avner Wishnitzer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html

E564 | The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is one of the most spectacular examples of how social media has played a pivotal role in political movements of the 21st century. However, in this final installment of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," we argue that the true beginning of Egypt's media revolution arrived with the cassette tape, which for the first time, made it possible for every Egyptian to be a producer rather than a passive consumer of popular culture. As our guest Andrew Simon explains, this veritable "media of the masses" was not only a means of disseminating commercial music. Western pop music and classics of the Nasserist era mingled with new underground music, religious content, home recordings, and personal voice messages on Egyptian cassettes, which circumvented and subverted state censorship. Artists like Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm produced celebrated political satire that defined the sound of the Infitah era, much to the chagrin of state authorities and the commercial recording industry. In 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets to protest the Mubarak regime, Imam's songs along with a century of sound stretching back to the First World War filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, as a new generation produced new sounds of revolution. We conclude our series with reflections from Alia Mossallam and Ziad Fahmy on the sounds of the square in 2011 and what they reveal about change and continuity in Egyptian politics. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/simon.html Andrew Simon is a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College. He was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in downtown Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and is the modern history book review editor for the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Andrew is the author of Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2022), which will be made available in Arabic by Dar El Shorouk this upcoming spring (2024). Currently, he is writing a biography of Shaykh Imam, a blind performer and political dissident, and is in the process of making his private collection of cassettes public in a digital archive for anyone to access. Alia Mossallam is a cultural historian and writer, currently an associate fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Ziad Fahmy is a Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University’s department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Fahmy is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020). Street Sounds was a co-winner of the Urban History Association's 2021 Award for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. He also wrote Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011), and is currently writing his third book, tentatively titled, Broadcasting Identity: Radio and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1925-1952. CREDITS Episode No. 564 Release Date: 3 December 2023 / 1 April 2024 Sound production by Chris Gratien Sound Elements: Abbas & Hindia (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); Seyyid Darwish - Salma ya Salama; 18 Days (2011-01-29) at Downtown Cairo (858 archive); Cassette tape sound effects from Pixabay; Hasan al-Asmar - Ana Gay (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); Abdel Halim Hafez - Sourah; Madonna 87 (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); الشيخ كشك و ام كلثوم; Ahmed Adaweya - Haba Fook we Haba Taht; Abbas & Hindia (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); الحمدلله خبطنا; الشيخ امام - همّا مين واحنا مين; Sheikh Imam - Nixon Baba; 18 Days (2011-01-29) at Downtown Cairo (858 archive); Scenes from Tahrir Square: The Revolution Victorious (Aljazeera); Facebook, Twitter Launch Mideast Revolution (CBS); Naima al-Masriya - Ya Aziz Aini; الجدع جدع والجبان جبان ( مع الكلمات) - الشيخ إمام; El Sharq wal Gharb

E557 | In 1952, a coup d'état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser ushered in a revolutionary period of Egyptian history in which sound played an integral role in shaping collective political consciousness. The culture of the 50s and 60s was dominated by songs by artists like Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez that still resonate within national consciousness, but as we explore in this third installment of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," the period produced spectacular sound as well as conspicous silence. As our guest Alia Mossallam explains, triumphant musical celebrations of the Egyptian state's signature achievement --- the construction of the Aswan High Dam --- shaped the terms through which Egyptians have come to remember this period. At the same time, songs of workers and Nubian villagers displaced by the dam captured subaltern sentiments beneath the surface of Nasserist cultural hegemony. We conclude our conversation with a reflection on the singular importance of sources like folk songs for writing histories erased by official sources. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/mossallam.html Alia Mossallam is a cultural historian, educator and writer interested in songs that tell stories and stories that tell of popular struggles behind the better-known events that shape world history. For her PhD she researched a popular history of Nasserist Egypt through the stories and experiences of the popular resistance in Port Said (1956) and Suez (1967-1974) and the construction of the Aswan High Dam through the experiences of its builders and the Nubian communities displaced by it. As a EUME fellow 2017-21 of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she worked on her book on the visual and musical archiving practices of the builders of the Aswan High Dam and the Nubian communities displaced by it. Her new project at EUME (2021-24), “Tracing Emancipation Under Rubbles of War”, retrieves the physical and political journeys of Egyptian and North African workers on the various fronts of World War I through the songs and memoires that recount their struggles. Some of her research-based articles, essays and short-stories can be found in The Journal of Water History, The History Workshop Journal, the LSE Middle East Paper Series, Ma’azif, Bidayat, Mada Masr, Jadaliyya and 60 Pages. An experimentative pedagogue, she founded the site-specific public history project “Ihky ya Tarikh”, as well as having taught at the American University in Cairo, the Freie Universität in Berlin, and continuing to teach at the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts. CREDITS Episode No. 557 Release Date: 3 December 2023 Sound production by Chris Gratien Sound Elements: Umm Kulthum - Hayart Albi Maak; Death Of Nasser (B) (AP); Abdel Halim Hafez - Ahwak; Abdel Halim Hafez - Hekayet Shaab; دايماً نصريبو لا نيل (courtesy of Alia Mossallam); حنينة النوبة ،، سيد جاير (YouTube); اسمي هناك بلدي هناك اغنيه نوبية (YouTube); Chad Crouch - Pilgrims Progress

E556 | During the interwar period, the recording industry reshaped Egyptian culture and politics through music. But as we discuss in part two of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," everyday sounds of the city are no less part of Egypt's political history. As our guest Ziad Fahmy explains, writing sonic history requires listening to the sources with ears attuned to the sentiments and sensibilities of past people. Together, we listen to a early recording of Egyptian street sounds and explore the world of sound that awaits within the textual record, focusing on how class dynamics played out on the soundscape of Cairo and Alexandria. We also consider how the rise of a new medium, radio, began to reshape the sonic life of ordinary Egyptians during the interwar period, paving the way for the media revolution of the 1950s and 60s. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/fahmy.html Ziad Fahmy is a Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University’s department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Fahmy is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020). Street Sounds was a co-winner of the Urban History Association's 2021 Award for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. He also wrote Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011), and is currently writing his third book, tentatively titled, Broadcasting Identity: Radio and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1925-1952. CREDITS Episode No. 556 Release Date: 3 December 2023 Sound production by Chris Gratien Sound Elements: Travel Penguin - Islamic Cairo, Al-Muizz Street - Egypt; Chris Gratien - Nightime Cab in Cairo (2005); Munira al-Mahdiyya - Aldahre Kata Awsali; Fox Movietone - Egyptian Army review; Egyptian Dancers; Cairo Street Scenes, 1928 (University of South Carolina Libraries); Ya Shabab El Nil - Umm Kulthum; جزء من مباراة بين الزمالك وانترناسونالي الإيطالي تعليق محمد لطيف

E555 | In the aftermath of the First World War, the Egyptian streets rose up against British rule during a period of global anti-imperialism, and the voices of the 1919 revolution have echoed throughout Egyptian history ever since. In this first installment of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," we consider how the First World War reshaped political consciousness in Egypt, as our guests Kyle Anderson and Alia Mossallam explore the experiences of the Egyptian Labor Corps and the sonic history of WWI. We examine the adventure, hardship, exile, and abuse Egyptian workers faced serving the British war effort, as well as how the war changed the society they returned to, in the words of one famous song from the period, "safe and sound." In discussing the popular songs of the war period that entered Egyptian national canon, our guests illuminate the ways in which shared songs can be modified and repurposed for new political contexts, drawing attention to the need for reconstructing the layers of context contained within some of history's earliest sound recordings. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/elc.html Kyle Anderson is an Associate Professor at SUNY Old Westbury and the author of The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War. His research has been funded by the Kluge Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). Alia Mossallam is a cultural historian and writer, currently an associate fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. CREDITS Episode No. 555 Release Date: 4 December 2023 Sound production by Chris Gratien Sound Elements (by order of appearance): Naima al-Masriya and Seyyid Darwish - Khod al-Biza; Naima al-Masriya - Ya Aziz Aini; Seyyid Darwish - Zourouni Kulli Sana Mara; El Sharq wel Gharb; Chad Crouch - Charcoal; Sadak Berreshid (Lautarchiv); Seyyid Darwish - Salma Ya Salama; Dalida - Salma Ya Salama Additional thanks to Brittany White

E554 | In 1873, Nissim Shamama died suddenly at his palazzo in Livorno. He was quietly one of the richest men in the Mediterranean. A Tunisian Jew born in the Ottoman Empire, Shamama had taken his place among the mercantile elite of a newly-unified Italy. He was a man who belonged to many places. But to whom would his vast inheritance belong? Our guest Jessica Marglin has published an award-winning book, The Shamama Case, that marshals an impressive array of archival sources to investigate how this question was resolved. As she demonstrates, the decade-long legal dispute over Shamama's estate was an international affair involving Tunisian officials, rabbis from throughout the Mediterranean, and some of Italy's foremost legal minds. In this conversation, we talk to Marglin about some of the highlights of the Shamama case, what it taught her about the history of citizenship and nationality in the 19th century Mediterranean, and the power of microhistory for disrupting conventional framings of the period. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/marglin.html Jessica Marglin is Professor of Religion, Law, and History, and the Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016) and the co-editor, with Matthias Lehmann, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2020). Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories. CREDITS Episode No. 554 Release Date: 27 November 2023 Sound production by Brittany White and Chris Gratien Music: Chad Crouch Bibliography and images courtesy of Jessica Marglin available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/marglin.html

E553 | In this episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his latest book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, where he defines Zionism not only as a nationalist project in conflict with the Palestinian one, but also a settler colonial project supported by the British and later the American imperialism. We begin in the late Ottoman period as Khalidi examines the familiar episodes and key turning points, which he characterizes as declaratations of war and wagings of war on Palestinians. We discuss the 1917 Balfour declaration and the communal conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine that led to the general strike and Arab revolt of 1936. The 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the creation of the State of Israel provide the backdrop for Cold War period conflicts, the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the outbreak of the First Intifada, which culminated in the Oslo Accords of 1993-95. Khalidi reflects on his experiences with the failures of Oslo, which set the stage for the rise of Hamas in Gaza and periodic sieges that have continued to the present day. We conclude with a consideration of the current war, situating the unprecedented civilian toll of both the attacks by Hamas in Israel and the subsequent Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip within Khalidi's larger narrative of more than a century of war on Palestine. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of eight books, including, most recently, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (2020). He also served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators during peace talks in the 1990s. Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Oxford. 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. 553 Release Date: 19 November 2023 Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Chris Gratien Sound Elements: Life for Arabs and Jews in the British Mandated territory (1936); Yasser Arafat: Extrait du discours devant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, le 13 novembre 1974; Bisan Owda (wizard_bisan1) on Instagram Reading list and images available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html

E552 | n this episode, Jesse Howell discusses the history of the early modern caravan route between Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) and Istanbul. In attending to the long-distance connections between the early modern Ottoman state and the Mediterranean world, he reveals the multi-ethnic communities that came together on the caravan route, the ways that Ottoman state established infrastructure to support mobility and circulation along these pathways, and the material afterlives of these layers of history in very different historical eras. We also talk about the challenge of not getting the information we want from sources, and how to grapple with that absence. In Jesse’s case, that struggle has included riding along a portion of the road on a bicycle, a trip that was chronicled in an earlier episode. Jesse Howell is Associate Director of the AM Program at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is a historian of the early modern Mediterranean, and completed his dissertation "The Ragusa Road: Mobility and Encounter in the Ottoman Balkans (1430-1700)" as part of Harvard's joint program in History and Middle East Studies. Prior to his work as a historian, he was a professional dance theater performer in California and Germany. Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power will be out in early 2023 from Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 552 Release Date: 11 October 2023 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Chad Crouch, "Pacing"; Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Chiaroscuro" Bibliography courtesy of Jesse Howell available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/10/howell.html

E551 | The Suez Canal was one of the largest infrastructure projects in the late Ottoman world. Built to connect the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, the canal construction's lasted from 1858-1869 and mobilized tens of thousands of workers from across Egypt and the broader Mediterreanan. Those workers' lives and labor transformed the canal zone and Egypt at large, and their stories, travels, pleasures, and challenges reveal the networks that knit the late-nineteenth century Mediterranean together from below. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/carminati.html Lucia Carminati is associate professor of History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is a historian of migration and the modern Middle East. She is the author of Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906, published by the University of California Press in 2023. Suzie Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College. She writes and teaches on the history of gender, sexuality, and political thought in the modern Arab world. CREDITS Episode No. 551 Release Date: 28 September 2023 Recording location: Istanbul / Oslo, Norway Sound production by Susanna Ferguson Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Sombra" Images and bibliography courtesy of Lucia Carminati available athttps://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/carminati.html

E550 | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode, Nilay Özok-Gündoğan discusses her new book The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire, which explains how these hereditary privileges—unique in the empire—developed and changed in the region of Palu between this moment and the nineteenth century, when the Ottoman state attempted to rescind such autonomy. Writing against scholarship that either ignores such families or understands them only in nationalist terms, Özok-Gündoğan attends to property, labor, and mineral extraction and how they ultimately all shaped the nature of the unprecedented violence at the end of empire. She also discusses her own journey writing this book, including her time teaching in Mardin and eventually being forced to leave Turkey. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/ozok.html Nilay Özok-Gündoğan is an Associate Professor of Ottoman and Middle East history at Florida State University. Her research centers on modern state-making, elite formation, property regimes, and intercommunal conflict and coexistence in the Ottoman Empire. Her work stands at the junction of interconnected Ottoman, Kurdish, Armenian, and Turkish histroies. She also writes about the question of methodology in Kurdish studies. She is the author of The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege. Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 550 Release Date: 20 September 2023 Recording location: Nashville, TN / Tallahassee, FL Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Big Road of Burravoe," "Chiaroscuro" Bibliography courtesy of Nilay Özok-Gündoğan available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/ozok.html

E549 | Bu bölümde, Doç. Dr. Aslıhan Gürbüzel’in bu sene başında University of California Press’ten çıkan kitabı “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700” başlıklı kitabı temelinde Osmanlı’da kamusal siyasetin oluşumunu tartışıyoruz. Kitap, Osmanlı’da devlet inşası sürecinin bir parçası olarak devletin artan merkezî gücüne, genişleyen bir kamusal siyasetin eşlik ettiğine işaret ediyor; erken modern dönemin aktif yurttaş oluşumunu görmek açısından kritik bir öneme sahip olduğunun altını çiziyor. Bu sohbette, söz konusu dönemdeki çoğul kamusal alanların katılımcılarını tanıyıp devletle ilişkilerini incelerken, Osmanlı örneğinin kamusal alan tartışmaları ve araştırmalarına sunduğu katkıları detaylandırıyoruz. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/gurbuzel.html Aslıhan Gürbüzel, McGill Üniversitesi’nde Osmanlı Çalışmaları doçentidir. Aynı üniversitede Osmanlı tarihi ve modern Türkiye üzerine dersler veren Gürbüzel’in “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere, 1600–1700” [Mesih’i Ehlileştirmek: Osmanlı Kamusal Siyasetinin Oluşumu, 1600-1700] başlıklı kitabı Ocak 2023’te University of California Press’ten yayımlanmıştır. Can Gümüş Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Atatürk İlkeleri ve İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü'ndeki doktora çalışmalarına, geç Osmanlı dönemi kentlerinde halk sağlığı ve kentleşme ilişkisini incelediği araştırmasıyla devam ediyor. YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 549 Kayıt yeri: İstanbul / Montreal Yayın tarihi: 12 Eylül 2023 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş & Chris Gratien Müzik: DÜNYA - Ferahfeza Peşrev Kaynakça Aslıhan Gürbüzel müsaadesiyle

E548 | What can we learn about the late Ottoman Empire from the histories of its would-be margins? In this episode, we explore that question in multiple senses through a conversation with longtime Ottoman History Podcast contributor Sam Dolbee about his book "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East." The book studies the dynamic history of the Jazira region, which straddles the modern borders of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. From the Tanzimat-era reordering of the Ottoman provinces to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of new nation-states, we discuss how the environment of the Jazira region and its people were both actors and objects in the remaking of the Middle East. Building out from the changing lives of locusts, grasshoppers that intermittently imposed themselves on the Jazira's history by devouring agricultural crops, Dolbee casts light onto communities of nomads and migrants often excluded from the empire's modern history. In the process, he shows how the people of Jazirah both made and resisted new administrative and national borders of the period. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/dolbee.html Samuel Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His is author of Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East. Chris Gratien is Associate Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. His first book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier, explores the social and environmental transformation of the Adana region of Southern Turkey during the 19th and 20th century. Reem Bailony is an Associate Professor of Middle East history at Agnes Scott College and formerly an American Druze Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Her book “Syria’s Transnational Rebellion: Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927" explores how the Syrian-Lebanese diaspora shaped the anti-French rebellion. CREDITS Episode No. 548 Release Date: 31 May 2023 Recording Location: Nashville, TN Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: Zé Trigueiros Images and bibliography courtesy of Samual Dolbee

E546 | The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, yet its influence on the social and political history of the realms that came under its domain is often minimized due to its short-lived nature. In some ways, the most lasting effects of the Mongol invasions were the unexpected geopolitical shakeups that their arrival brought. Notable examples included the increase in the slave trade which facilitated the rise of the Mamluk sultanate, or the controlled chaos of competing Turkmen tribes who had fled to Anatolia, setting the stage for the eventual rise of the Ottomans. The Mongols were not merely invaders, however, and an overemphasis on military history often conceals the rich cultural history of a nomadic society with its own religious traditions and policies of tolerance towards the diverse societies of the medieval Near East. In this episode, we discuss these topics and more with Nicholas Morton, the author of a new book on the Mongols, entitled The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/mongols.html Nicholas Morton is an Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University in the UK where he specializes in the history of the Mongol Empire and the Crusades. The author or editor of many books and articles, he also co-edits three book series with Routledge: “Rulers of the Latin East”, “Global Histories before Globalisation” and “Medieval Religious Orders: History, Sources, Memory.” You can find more of his research and public outreach on YouTube and Twitter. Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. CREDITS Episode No. 546 Release Date: 26 May 2023 Recording location: Cambridge, MA and Nottingham, England Sound production by Maryam Patton Music: Music: Old Vessel (ID 1948) by Lobo Loco Bibliography and images courtesy of Nicholas Morton

E545 | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottomans claimed sovereignty and recognition from other states in the sixteenth century world order? In this episode Ayşe Zarakol discusses the rise and fall of Eastern world orders from the Mongol times to the mid-eighteenth century. She critically interrogates both Euro-centric and Sino-centric histories of international relations in order to emphasise the Chingisid universal claims and their evolution throughout the centuries. Considering the Ottomans within this longue duree history, Zarakol emphasises the notion of millenial sovereignty that put the Ottomans in competition with the Safavids and the Mughals and how the crisis of the seventeenth century dismantled this world order and contributed to a sense of decline. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. In addition to Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Zarakol is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the editor of Hierarchies in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018). 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. 545 Release Date: 20 May 2023 Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Chris Gratien Music: Monsieur Doumani - The System, Nima Janmohammadi - Dastgah Shur Images and bibliography courtesy of Ayşe Zarakol https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html

E544 | Elizabeth Graver grew up knowing her grandmother Rebecca was from the Ottoman Empire and that her tumultuous, meandering life journey, like many in the Ottoman Sephardi diaspora, had taken her to Spain, Cuba, and finally, the United States. Like so many of us, she wanted to know more about her family history. Graver was twenty-one when she recorded her first interviews with her grandmother. Over the decades, this family history project would eventually become Kantika-—a historical novel inspired by the multigenerational story of Graver's family. In Kantika, she crafts compelling fiction from historical facts as she retraces her grandmother’s journey. Our conversation with Graver will explore familiar themes like migration, displacement, identity, and belonging after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. And we’ll also reflect on the possibilities and challenges of writing intimate family histories as literature and how fiction can help us better conceptualize and understand the past. Elizabeth Graver's fifth novel, Kantika (Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2023), was inspired by her grandmother, Rebecca née Cohen Baruch Levy, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul. German and Turkish editions are forthcoming. Elizabeth’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays. She is a Professor of English and co-directs the Creative Writing program at Boston College. Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories. CREDITS Episode No. 544 Release Date: 13 May 2023 Recording Location: Boston / Charlottesville Sound production by Brittany White and Chris Gratien Music: Haim Effendi - A la una nassi io; Jack Mayesh - Missirlu Bibliography and images courtesy of Elizabeth Graver available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/kantika.html

E543 | In times of conflict, state governments can be especially sensitive about protecting secrets. When new technologies are involved, like the telegraph, confusion over how exactly it functions and whether it is secure invite new debates over the nature of knowledge and what the public has the right to know. In this episode, Chloe Bordewich discusses her research about news, leaks, and propaganda in modern Egypt. By highlighting a particular court case around the turn of the 20th century involving leaks of sensitive military information and telegraph operators, Bordewich shows how Egypt was at the center of a global story involving the Egyptian public's right to knowledge, new technologies, and the pressures of colonialism. Chloe Bordewich is a postdoctoral fellow in public history at Boston University. Her research focuses on empire, technology, and the control of information in 19th- and 20th-century Egypt. Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. CREDITS Episode No. 543 Release Date: 6 May 2023 Recording Location: Cambridge, MA Sound production by Maryam Patton Music: Aḥmad al-Ajamī - Tawshīḥ yā ghazālā Bibliography and images courtesy of Chloe Bordewich available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/04/bordewich.html

E542 | Dijital beşeri bilimlerin Osmanlı tarihyazımına sunduğu imkânlar nelerdir? Bu sohbetimizde, Osmanlı ve Türkiye Çalışmaları perspektifinden Dijital Beşeri Bilimler'e katkıda bulunan dijital projeleri, araçları ve yayınları bir araya getiren bir platform olan Digital Ottoman Studies’in çalışmaları ve tarihyazımına katkılarını değerlendiriyoruz. Platformun kurucusu Fatma Aladağ ve proje yöneticisi Doç. Dr. Yunus Uğur ile dijital beşeri bilimler perspektifi alanın mevcut kaynaklarını ve çalışmalarını nasıl zenginleştirebilir sorusuna odaklanırken, bu yaklaşımın kısıtlarını da tartışmaya açıyoruz. https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/04/dos.html Fatma Aladağ lisans derecesini İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü'nde, yüksek lisans derecesini ise aynı üniversitesinin Tarih programında "Cities and Administrative Divisions of the Ottoman Empire in the Early 16th Century: A Case Study for the Application of Digital History to Ottoman Studies” başlıklı tezi ile aldı. Freie Universität Berlin ve Oxford Üniversitesi'nde staj ve asistanlık yaptı. “Osmanlı Şehirlerini Haritalamak: Sosyo-Mekânsal Benzerlikler ve Özgünlükler (1520-1540)" başlıklı TÜBİTAK projesinde ve "Lübnan'da Osmanlı Kültürel Mirası" adlı projde dijital haritalama, veritabanı tasarımı ve araştırma asistanı olarak görev aldı. Osmanlıca arşivler odağında TRANSKRIBUS yapay zeka altyapısı ile otomatik metin tanımlama ve TEI ile Osmanlıca metin kodlama üzerine çalışmalar yürütmektedir. Başlıca çalışma alanları dijital beşeri bilimler, dijital tarih ve Osmanlı şehir tarihini kapsar. Leipzig Üniversitesi'nde sürdürdüğü doktora çalışması, dijital şehir tarihi kapsamında 19.yüzyıl İstanbulu'nun mekânsal analizine odaklanmaktadır. Digital Ottoman Studies Platformu'nun kurucusudur ve aynı zamanda koordinatörlüğünü yürütmektedir. Yunus Uğur Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nde, YL ve doktora derecesini ise aynı üniversitenin Tarih programında tamamladı. 2003-2004 yıllarında New York Binghamton Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü’nde araştırmacı olarak bulundu. 2009-2020 tarihleri arasında İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü kadrosunda görev yapmış ayrıca Şehir Araştırmaları Merkezi Direktörlüğünü ve Şehir Çalışmaları yüksek lisans programı başkanlığını yapmıştır. 2016- 2017 yıllarında Berlin'de akademik çalışmalarını yürütmüştür. Halen Marmara Üniversitesi Dijital Beşeri Bilimler Araştırma Merkezi müdürü ve Tarih bölümü öğretim üyesidir. Aynı zamanda Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi’nin baş editörü olup www.digitalottomanstudies.com platformunun yöneticisi, Global Şehir Tarihi Projesi (GUHP) Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi, Avrupa Şehir Tarihçileri Birliği (EAUH) ve Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Derneği (MESA) üyesidir. Araştırma alanları Osmanlı şehir tarihi, kent mekânı ve mahalleler, tarih yazımı, tarih kaynakları, dijital tarihçilik, tarihi coğrafya, sözlü tarih ve kültürel mirası kapsar. YAPIM VE YAYIN Bölüm No: 542 Kayıt yeri: İstanbul Yayın tarihi: 17 Nisan 2023 Ses Editörü: Can Gümüş & Sam Dolbee Müzik: Blue Dot Sessions Fifteen Street

E541 | In this episode, Linda Darling discusses the history of tax administration in the early modern Ottoman Empire, and how attention to it can open up a broad range of questions about technology, governance, and military power and, in the process, dispell simplistic stereotypes such as the "Sick Man of Europe." In addition, she speaks more broadly about her path to Ottoman history, her studies with Halil Inalcık, and how she came to write a book about tax administration. In closing, she touches on what projects--on the cusp of retirement--she is thinking about now. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/04/darling.html Linda Darling is Professor of History at University of Arizona. Her books are Revenue Raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire (1996) and A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East: The Circle of Justice from Mesopotamia to Globalization (2013). Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power will be out in spring 2023 from Cambridge University Press. CREDITS Episode No. 541 Release Date: 4 April 2023 Recording Location: Denver, CO Sound production by Sam Dolbee Music: Chad Crouch, "Pacing"; Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Chiaroscuro"