Ottoman History Podcast

with Susanna Ferguson hosted by Chris Gratien | What does the history of modern Arab political thought look like from the perspective of women authors? In this podcast, we sit down with lon...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/sferg.html

with Peter Hill hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | Across the 19th century Arab East, or Mashriq, there were two simultaneous but seemingly contradictory trends afoot. On the one hand, new ways...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/peter-hill.html

with İlkay Yılmaz hosted by Sam Dolbee | Passports are objects at once momentous and mundane. How did they come about in the late Ottoman Empire? In this episode, İlkay Yılmaz discuss...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/09/yilmaz.html

with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky hosted by Chris Gratien & Can Gümüş | During the late 19th and early 20th century, tens of millions of migrants crossed the seas, settling in the Americas...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/08/hamed-troyansky.html

with Ali Kulez hosted by Sam Dolbee | 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, A...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/04/kulez.html

with Andrew Simon, Alia Mossallam, and Ziad Fahmy hosted by Chris Gratien | The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is one of the most spectacular examples of how social media has played a pivot...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/simon.html

with Leena Dallasheh hosted by Chris Gratien | As an Arab city inside the 1948 borders of Israel, Nazareth defies many of the general narratives of both Israeli and Palestinian histories. ...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/03/dallasheh.html

Şeyma Afacan Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde, Dr. Şeyma Afacan ile geç Osmanlı’da biyolojik materyalizm, psikolojinin gelişimi ve Afacan’ın bir “ezber bozma alanı” olara...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/03/afacan.html

with Ümit Kurt hosted by Sam Dolbee | What were the economic forces that drove the violence of the Armenian genocide? In this episode, historian Ümit Kurt speaks about his research on th...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/02/kurt.html

with Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | 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...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/mossallam.html

with Brett Wilson hosted by Brittany White | Set between elite households and a Sufi lodge, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's 1922 novel Nur Baba was a provocative take on competing notions of ...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nur-baba.html

with Maha Nassar hosted by Susanna Ferguson | 1948 marks the year that Israel gained independence, and for Palestinians, an experience of mass exile known as the Nakba. The displacement of ...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2024/01/nassar.html

with Ziad Fahmy hosted by Chris Gratien | During the interwar period, the recording industry reshaped Egyptian culture and politics through music. But as we discuss in part two of our four...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/fahmy.html

with Avner Wishnitzer hosted by Sam Dolbee | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book As Night Falls: Eig...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html

with Kyle Anderson & Alia Mossallam hosted by Chris Gratien | In the aftermath of the First World War, the Egyptian streets rose up against British rule during a period of global anti-imp...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/elc.html

with Jessica Marglin hosted by Brittany White | 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 ...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/marglin.html

with Rashid Khalidi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | In this episode, Rashid Khalidi discusses his latest book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resis...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/11/khalidi.html

Jesse Howell hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this episode, Jesse Howell discusses the history of the early modern caravan route between Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) and Istanbul. In attending t...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/10/howell.html

with Lucia Carminati hosted by Susanna Ferguson | The Suez Canal was one of the largest infrastructure projects in the late Ottoman world. Built to connect the Mediterranean to the Red Sea,...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/carminati.html

with Nilay Özok-Gündoğan hosted by Sam Dolbee | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/ozok.html

Aslıhan Gürbüzel Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde, Doç. Dr. Aslıhan Gürbüzel’in bu sene başında University of California Press’ten çıkan kitabı “Taming the Messiah: Th...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/gurbuzel.html

Samuel Dolbee hosted by Chris Gratien and Reem Bailony | What can we learn about the late Ottoman Empire from the histories of its would-be margins? In this episode, we explore that questio...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/dolbee.html

with Chloe Bordewich and Lydia Harrington hosted by Meryum Kazmi and Harry Bastermajian | a collaboration with Harvard Islamica --- In this episode, we leave Harvard and Cambridge to explor...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/blog-post.html

with Nicholas Morton hosted by Maryam Patton | The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, yet its influence on the social and political history of the realms that...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/mongols.html

with Ayşe Zarakol hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | 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 Ottoman...

https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html