Holly Shissler, associate professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History at the University of Chicago, on the life and work of Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1844-1912). The publisher of major newspaper Tercuman-i Hakikat, Ahmet Mithat also wrote many fictional works including Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi, which appeared in English in 2016.
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Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
Jan-Markus Vomel on the past and future of political Islam in Turkey
Louis Fishman on Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era
Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey's religious nationalist status quo
Ahmet Kuru on Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment
Zeynep Çelik on archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Alan Mikhail on Selim I, the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern world
Sinem Adar on the militarisation of Turkey's foreign policy
Richard Antaramian on Ottoman modernisation and the Armenian community
Berk Esen on the political economy behind Turkey's democratic distress
Magdalena Zaborowska on James Baldwin's Turkish decade
Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey's Kurdish question
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