Malte Fuhrmann, research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, on “Port Cities of the East Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book paints a panorama of cultural and social life in the diverse cities of Salonica, Istanbul and Izmir in the late Ottoman era.
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Hannah Lucinda Smith on the past, present and future of Erdogan's Turkey
Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish
Yağmur Karakaya on Ottoman nostalgia and populism in Turkey
Haris Rigas on the Istanbul of 19th century Greek scholar Skarlatos Byzantios
Elif Mahir Metinsoy on Ottoman women during World War I
Selim Deringil on the Ottoman twilight in the Arab lands
Toygar Sinan Baykan on populism and organisation in the AKP
Reuben Silverman on explorations in Turkey’s 'ever-present past'
Patrick Keddie on football and the story of modern Turkey
Şevket Pamuk on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey since 1820
Ceren Lord on religious politics in Turkey
Doğuş Şimşek and Yusuf Sayman on African migrants in Istanbul
Selda Tuncer on women and public space in Ankara, 1950 to 1980
Selim Koru on Turkey, Russia and the power of political resentment
Maureen Freely on the life and work of Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Caroline Eden on a culinary journey along the Black Sea coast
Yigit Akin on the Ottoman home front during World War One
Lora Sarı on the life, photography and writing of Ara Guler
Alev Scott on 'Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire'
Avedis Hadjian on the 'hidden Armenians' of Anatolia
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