Name: Greek Orthodox Service (recorded by Tim Shaw) by GB
Duration: 10 min 20 s
Description: Here you can hear the sound of hymns from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul. The Patriarch Bartholomew I attended and sang during this service. The recording was made by sound artist Tim Shaw on our visit to Istanbul in 2018. We are grateful to the Patriarchate for their permission to record this.

Here you can hear the sound of hymns from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul. The Patriarch Bartholomew I attended and sang during this service. The recording was made by sound artist Tim Shaw on our visit to Istanbul in 2018. We are grateful to the Patriarchate for their permission to record this.

Greek Orthodox Service (recorded by Tim Shaw)

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

Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World | Maha Nassar

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

Season 13

A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul | Brett Wilson

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

The Economics of the Armenian Genocide in Aintab | Ümit Kurt

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

Geç Osmanlı’da Materyalizm, Psikoloji ve Duygular Tarihi | Şeyma Afacan

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

Nazareth, the Nakba, and the Remaking of Palestinian Politics | Leena Dallasheh

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

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