Many of us have friends that been passing away too early. This one is dedicated to one of my old mates.

If I could have just one wish
l tell you what it would be
I'd bring back an old friend of mine
to spend the day with me
He passed away, way to soon
and it's hard to understand
I've asked the Lord but I still wonder why
the angels had to bring him home 
so suddenly

Tell me why... the good die young?
Tell me why... the good die young?
I wanna know

Together we had so much fun
We were always on the run
I remember the way he'd comfort me
when I was feeling down
I just can't help I sometimes cry
when I'm thinking of the days gone by
But life goes on and I just got to be strong
'cause there ain't no other way
no other way

Tell me why... the good die young?
Tell me why... the good die young?
I wanna know

words & music: Patrik Eriksson

The good die young

The Good Die Young

Track 10 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Our Grandparents left Aunt Daisy’s room exactly as it was with all her belonging the same place they were after she left. We found in Aunt Daisy’s bedroom a very disturbing wedding picture. Apparently Aunt Daisy got married secretly with Mary Smith in 1959 in Las Vegas most famous chapels “The Little Church of the West”, which may explain why she never had kids. She lived her secret life with Mary 30 years before dying from cancer.
Music composed in 2006 by Syrel
Photography made 1994 by Syrel
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Haunted House

The Secret Wedding

E526 | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did the Ottoman statesmen and subjects think of these would-be attemepts to provide them with more security? From the late eighteenth century, as a new international system was emerging, European powers considered the Ottoman Empire a weaker foil to their own expanding empires. In this episode, Ozan Ozavci explores how this perception of Ottoman weakness, known as the Eastern Question, affected the Ottoman Empire's place in and engagement with the new international system and law. Exploring the different phases of the Eastern Question, from the French invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Civil War in Greater Syria durings the 1860s, Ozavci highlights agency of individual actors in the Ottoman capital and the provinces.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html

Ozan Ozavci is Assistant Professor of Transimperial History at Utrecht University and co-convenor of the Lausanne Project.

Zeinab Azarbadegan is a post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century.

CREDITS 

Episode No. 526
Release Date: 22 April 2022
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan
Music: "Melodia Arabia" from Franz Hünten's Fantaisie arabe op. 136 (1845). A famous French melody copied from a North African (Egyptian or Algerian) one since 1600s. "Partant pour la Syrie" sung by Joseph Saucier (Canadian National Archives). The lyrics were inspired by the French invasion of Egypt and Syria and was the French national anthem during the Second Empire. "Aldahre Kataâ Awsali " by Munira al-Mahdiyya (Free Music Archive). "Samaii Hijaz Kar Kurdi" by Chahadé Saadé(Free Music Archive)
Images and bibliography courtesy of Ozan Ozavci available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/04/ozavci.html

Season 11

A New History of The Eastern Question | Ozan Ozavci

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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

Season 12

What is Islamic Art? | Wendy Shaw

Çawa rastkin emê rêça nezanan , 
Xebatkarin dil bi arin nav zinaran
çiqas xortin çiqas merdin li zîndanan


Xortê merdan ka xebat 
tev herin ji bo Welat

dengê merdan ji dûr va hat 
roja Newrozê hilat

Reşîd Sofî / Axa Pîroz

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

Season 13

Privileges and Nobility in Ottoman Kurdistan | Nilay Özok-Gündoğan

#3749 (787 left): Mar. 20, 2024: All on earth my aching sight of loveliness could see  (from Edgar Allan Poe Poems from Mar. 5, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3749(82.65%) (Only 787 pieces remain) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

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Turkish Oud

E334 | Along with new maritime networks, information stiched together the empires of the early modern period. One component of the growing networks of information in the increasingly connected space of the Mediterranean world was espionage. As we learn in our latest conversation with Emrah Safa Gürkan about his new book Sultanın Casusları (Spies of the Sultan), the Ottoman Empire was both party and subject to the fascinating exploits of early modern spies. In this episode, we learn about the lives of Ottoman spies profiled in Gürkan's book, and we consider how the transformation of espionage in the Mediterranean relates to the development of early modern empires.

More at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/spies.html

Emrah Safa Gürkan is a historian of early modern Mediterranean focusing on themes such as espionage, privateering, religious conversion and slavery. He teaches at Istanbul 29 Mayis University. He is also co-creator of Ottoman History Podcast.

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.

CREDITS

Episode No. 334
Release Date: 25 September 2017
Recording Location: Şişhane, Istanbul
Audio editing by Chris Gratien
Music: Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi
Special thanks to Kara Günes for permission to use the composition "Istanbul" and Muhtelif for "Bint El Shalabiya"
Images and bibliography courtesy of Emrah Safa Gürkan available at http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/09/spies.html

What is Islamic Art? | Wendy Shaw

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