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

Season 12

The Ragusa Road and the Ottoman Balkans | Jesse Howell

E533 | What is an image in Islam? Is its permissibility the main preoccupation of Islamic discourses? In this episode, Wendy M.K. Shaw revisits the foundations of art history and considers their colonial and Eurocentric roots. She discusses the stories of art and artists that circulated in the Islamic world, not all of which were accompanied with images, in order to understand what the role of art and the artist were conceived of the pre-modern Islamic world. Redefining concepts such as the image, perspective, art, and history, she sketches the alternative Islamic perceptual culture in which seeing with the ear and seeing with the heart are central to understanding this world as the manifestation of the divine.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/11/shaw.html

Wendy M. K. Shaw (Ph.D. UCLA, 1999) has served as a professor in the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, and Germany. She researches postcolonial art historiography and decolonial art history of the Islamic world and the modern Middle East. She is author of Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of California Press, 2003), Osmanlı Müzeleri (İletişim Yayınları, 2006), Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (IB Tauris, 2011), Osmanlı Resmi (Bozlu Sanat, 2022). What is “Islamic” Art: Between Religion and Perception (Cambridge University Press, 2019, Honorable Mention for the 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association and the 2021 Iran Book Award), and Loving Writing (Routledge, 2021).

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. 533
Release Date: 3 November 2022
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Nima JanMohammadi - Dastgah-i Shur, The Sounds of Tarab - Bowmazan Ya Mahaba Bi Kidude, Kamancha Sayat - Nova
Images and bibliography courtesy of Wendy M. K. Shaw available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/11/shaw.html

What is Islamic Art? | Wendy Shaw

E535 | When you think of the history of science, what people and places come to mind? Scientific knowledge production flourished in early modern Morocco, and not in the places you might expect. This episode transports us into the intellectual and social worlds of Sufi lodges (zawāya) in seventeenth-century Morocco. Our guest, Justin Stearns, guides us through scholarly and educational landscapes far removed from the imperial urban centers of Fez and Marrakech. We discuss his new book, Revealed Sciences, which examines the development of the natural sciences through close study of works produced by rural Sufi scholars. Challenging the idea that the early modern period was one of intellectual decline, Stearns reveals the vibrant multi-ethnic, intellectual networks of the early modern Maghreb and the implications of their story for the history of science and the writing of history. We speak about paper mâché astrolabes, Borgesian fantasies, resisting the lure of triumphant narratives, and the importance of failure for creativity and innovation.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/12/stearns.html

Justin Stearns is Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi where he teaches classes on the pre-modern Islamicate world and the relationship between science and religion. His research focuses on the premodern intellectual history of the Islamic West (Maghrib).

Shireen Hamza is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history of medical exchange in the medieval Indian Ocean world.

Taylor M. Moore is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

CREDITS

Episode No. 535
Release Date: 14 December 2022
Sound production by Shireen Hamza
Music: "Touicha & Jabir," Moroccan Folk Music, Lyrichord
Bibliography and images courtesy of Justin Stearns at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/12/stearns.html

The Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco | Justin Stearns

E540 | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman Empire? In this episode Mostafa Minawi answers these questions by focusing on the lives of two Arab-Ottoman Imperialists from the same family in Damascus, the al-'Azm or Azamzade family. By recounting their lives, excavating their writings, and narrating how their descendants remember them, Minawi explores questions of belonging, race and ethnicity, and the emotional world of a family divided by the fracturing of an centuries-old empire.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/03/minawi.html

Mostafa Minawi is an associate professor of History and the director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies initiative at Cornell University.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq

CREDITS

Episode No. 540
Release Date: 28 March 2023
Recording Location: MESA 2022, Denver, Colorado
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: Katibim by Safiye Aliye and Banat Iskandaria by Mohammed El-Bakkar
Images and bibliography courtesy of Mostafa Minawi

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

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"

Tax Administration in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire | Linda Darling

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

Osmanlı Tarihyazımını Dijitalleştirme Platformu: Digital Ottoman Studies

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

News, Leaks, and Propaganda in Modern Egypt | Chloe Bordewich

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

Kantika: from History to Fiction, a Sephardic Journey | Elizabeth Graver

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

The Ottoman Empire and Eastern World Orders | Ayşe Zarakol

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

The Mongols and the Medieval Near East | Nicholas Morton

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

Environment and Empire in the Ottoman Jazira | Sam Dolbee

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

Season 13

Osmanlı Kamusal Siyasetinin Oluşumu | Aslıhan Gürbüzel

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

Privileges and Nobility in Ottoman Kurdistan | Nilay Özok-Gündoğan

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

Life and Labor on the Suez Canal | Lucia Carminati

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

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine | Rashid Khalidi

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

Nationality on Trial in the 19th Century Mediterranean | Jessica Marglin

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

The Egyptian Labor Corps and the Echoes of WWI

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

The Politics of Street Sounds in Interwar Egypt

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 Egyptian's 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

Nasser, Nubia, and the Stories of a People

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

Media of the Masses in Modern Egypt

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

Ottoman Istanbul After Dark | Avner Wishnitzer

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

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

An Ottoman Imam in Brazil | Ali Kulez

E 413 | Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how Kemalism as a political category has been used widely and often ambiguously throughout the history of the Turkish Republic in  public discourse as well as in historiography. In this episode, we discuss Kemalism from an innovative transnational perspective. The making of Kemalism was embedded in hybridity and circulations involving other regions of the post-Ottoman space. Practices of governance, material objects, new conceptions of the body and gender roles, and scientific debates created a convergence of Islam and modernity which was influenced by external references but also attracted observers from surrounding countries such as Albania, Yugoslavia and Egypt.

See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/transnational-kemalism.html

Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek are members of the Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC). They are the editors of Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World(London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

CREDITS

Episode No. 413
Release Date: 9 June 2019
Recording Location: Paris, France
Audio editing by Andreas Guidi
Music: "The Southeast Passage Theme," Giulio Stermieri and "Yanık Ömer," performed by Bayan Safiye 
Images and bibliography courtesy of Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek 

See more at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/06/transnational-kemalism.html

A Transnational History of Kemalism

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/early-modern.html

The Early Modern Islamic World

E490 | In 1919, Paraskevi Kyrias went to Paris to advocate for Albanian independence. As a woman in the overwhelmingly masculine space of international diplomacy, she faced sexism and unwanted romantic overtures. Nevertheless, she called on her connections within a global Protestant community, her life in diaspora in the United States, and her experiences at the elite Constantinople Girls' School to play a unique role in the Albanian campaign for independence after World War I. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Nevila Pahumi about Kyrias' story, her leadership of the early Albanian women's movement, and the diary of her experiences in Paris she left behind. We also trace the history of this remarkable woman after 1919, as she and her family were repudiated by a secularizing Albanian state determined to excise Protestant activism from their national history--until she was once again remade as a feminist icon in the last years of her life.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html

Nevila Pahumi works on the history of women's education and their emergence in the public sphere in the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans. She graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a PhD in History in 2016, and between 2016-2018 she held the Alexander Nash Fellowship in Albanian Studies at UCL's School of Slavonic and Southeast European Studies. She has published two-dissertation related articles in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies and CLIO and taught a range of topics on Eastern Europe including women, gender, and sexuality after socialism. Her research and writing have been generously supported by an IIE Fulbright Fellowship, the Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, as well as a combination of research and writing grants from the University of Michigan's Weiser Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East Eurasian Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Rackham Graduate School.

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. 490
Release Date: 21 January 2021
Recording Location: Charlottesville, VA / Northampton, MA
Sound production by Susanna Ferguson and Chris Gratien
Music: "Chuperlika," Music of the Balkans, Gogofski; Eduardo Vandaa - VALSES DE PARIS; Henry King and his Hotel Pierre Orch - April in Paris; Marko Melkon and Nick Doneff - Geozlerinden Bellidir  
Special thanks to Sam Dolbee
Images and bibliography courtesy of Nevila Pahumi available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/01/pahumi.html

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