Imagination & Diaspora: Best of 2019
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsOur picks for the best and most popular episodes of OHP in 2019 on this year's theme of imagination and diaspora
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Mughal Persian Poetry and Persianate Cultures
December 15, 2019 23:43Episode 442 with Sunil Sharma hosted by Shireen Hamza and Naveena Naqvi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Professor Sunil Sharma shares his research on the cast of poets who wrote Persian poetry in India, and the poetic idea of Mughal India as a paradise, or an “Arcadia.” (He also shares some excerpts of this lovely poetry with us!) We discuss how specific regions, like Kashmir, became a hot new topic in Persian poetry, and explore the kind...
Narrating Migration: A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable
November 24, 2019 18:06Episode 436 with Rawan Arar, Andrew Arsan, Reem Bailony, and Neda Maghbouleh hosted by Chris Gratien Audience questions by Joshua Donovan, Nihal Kayali, Nova Robinson, and Ben Smith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this roundtable entitled "Narrating Migration: Emerging Methods and Cross-Disciplinary Directions," held at the 2019 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, two historians--Reem Bailony and Andrew Arsan--and two sociol...
Family Papers and Ottoman Jewish Life After Empire
November 20, 2019 01:20Episode 434 with Sarah Abrevaya Stein hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein speaks to us about the journey of one Jewish family from Ottoman Salonica in the late nineteenth century to Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and beyond during the twentieth century. In her new book Family Papers, she reveals the poignant continuities and changes that accompanied the Sephardic family's movement from an...
The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America
November 13, 2019 21:24Episode 433 with David Gutman hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Beginning in the 1880s, thousands of Ottoman Armenians left the Harput region bound for places all around the world. The Ottoman state viewed these migrants as threats, both for their feared political connections and their possession of foreign legal protections. In this episode, David Gutman discusses the smuggling networks that emerged in response to these legal restriction...
Islamic Law and Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia
October 08, 2019 20:28Episode 430 with Nurfadzilah Yahaya hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions and legal codes, Islamic law remained an important part of daily life. In fact, as our guest Fadzilah Yahaya argues, Islamic law in the region underwent significant transformation as a result of British and Dutch policies. But rather ...
Medical Metaphors in Ottoman Political Thought
September 05, 2019 13:59Episode 425 with Alp Eren Topal hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Alp Eren Topal traces the history of medical metaphors for describing and diagnosing state and society in Ottoman political thought. From the balancing of humors prescribed by Galenic medicine to the lifespan of the state described by Ibn Khaldun and the germ theory of nineteenth-century biomedicine, we explore some of the ways people t...
1001 Nights at the Cinema
August 30, 2019 15:36Episode 424 with Samhita Sunya hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The 1001 Nights, an Arabic collection of tales, have been translated into numerous languages and adapted to many cultural contexts. In this episode, we explore the impact of the 1001 Nights on the history of cinema. As our guest Samhita Sunya explains, the 1001 Nights corpus influenced Western cinema from the earliest decades of the medium's rise. However, in our conversa...
Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikâye
August 17, 2019 08:21Bölüm 422 Fatih Artvinli ve Ebru Aykut Sunucu Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Edebiyat ve kurmacanın tarihyazımına sunduğu imkânlar nelerdir? Bu bölümde, aynı kuşaktan 14 genç tarihçinin arşiv belgesi, gazete kupürü, günlük, mektup gibi tarihsel bir malzemeden ya da metinden yola çıkarak kurguladığı öykülerden oluşan "Tarihçilerden Başka Bir Hikâye" kitabı üzerine sohbet ediyoruz. Kitabın editörlerinden Fatih Artvinli ve Ebru Aykut ile tarihsel gerçe...
The Story Has It
July 18, 2019 05:09<!-- function toggle_visibility(id) { var e = document.getElementById(id); if(e.style.display == 'block') e.style.display = 'none'; else e.style.display = 'block'; } //--> a:hover { cursor:pointer; } Episode 419 with İpek Hüner Cora hosted by Işın Taylan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Ottoman literature is heavily associated with verse, namely, Ottoman court poetry, and to some extent, folk literature. ...
Mexico and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
July 04, 2019 04:10Episode 417 with Devi Mays hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud After their expulsion from the Iberian peninsula during the 15th century, Jewish communities settled throughout the Mediterranean, with many finding new homes in the cities of the ascendant Ottoman Empire. Centuries later, Ottoman Jews descended from this early modern diaspora still spoke a language related to Spanish, often referred to as Ladino. During the late 19th century...
The Environmental Politics of Abdul Rahman Munif
June 15, 2019 13:15Episode 414 with Suja Sawafta hosted by Chris Gratien and Rebecca Alemayehu Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Abdul Rahman Munif is one of the most celebrated authors in the Arabic language. In this episode, we sit down with literature scholar Suja Sawafta to learn about the social and political experiences that shaped Munif as an author, and in particular, we explore the role of the environment in some his most important works such as Cities of Salt. We disc...
American Music of the Ottoman Diaspora
June 01, 2019 19:39Episode 412 with Ian Nagoski hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of people from the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman states emigrated to the U.S. Among them were musicians, singers, and artists who catered to the new diaspora communities that emerged in cities like New York and Boston. During the early 20th century, with the emergence of a commercial recording industry i...
Survivor Objects and the Lost World of Ottoman Armenians
March 25, 2019 13:21Episode 407 with Heghnar Watenpaugh hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The genre of biography usually applies to people, but could a similar approach be applied to an object? Can a thing have a life of its own? In this episode, Heghnar Watenpaugh explores this question by tracing the long journey of the Zeytun Gospels, a famous illuminated manuscript considered to be a masterpiece of medieval Armenian art. Protected for centuries in a ...
WWI in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora
March 01, 2019 23:00Episode 404 with Stacy Fahrenthold hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud By the time of the First World War, there were roughly 500,000 Lebanese and Syrians in the Americas. And as Stacy Fahrenthold argues in a new book entitled Between the Ottomans and the Entente, this diaspora played a critical role in the transformation of politics in Greater Syria over a period of incredible flux. In our conversation, we discuss how the diaspora embra...
Extraterritoriality, Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
February 26, 2019 12:57Episode 403 with Sarah Abrevaya Stein hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Many students of Middle Eastern history know that that some non-Muslims subjects of the Ottoman Empire became "proteges" of European states in the nineteenth century and thus acquired extraterritorial legal protections. While we know the institutional history of extraterritoriality, the individual motivations and histories of those who chose to become proteges is rela...
Forging Islamic Science
February 02, 2019 13:42Episode 400 with Nir Shafir hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Nir Shafir talks about the problem of "fake minatures" of Islamic science: small paintings that look old, but are actually contemporary productions. As these images circulate in museums, on book covers, and on the internet, they tell us more about what we want "Islamic science" to be than what it actually was. That, Nir tells us, is a lost opportunity. « ...
Orientalism in the Ottoman Empire
January 26, 2019 12:13Episode 399 with Zeynep Çelik hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did the Ottomans react to European attitudes and depictions of their own lands? Pondering on the groundbreaking book 'Orientalism' by Edward Said forty years after its publication, our guest Zeynep Çelik discusses the ways in which urban, art, and architectural historians have grappled with representations of the Ottomans by Europeans and rep...
Imagining and Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World
January 03, 2019 09:30Episode 396 with Orhan Pamuk and Nükhet Varlık featuring A. Tunç Şen presented by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this special episode, novelist Orhan Pamuk and historian Nükhet Varlık discuss how to write about plague and epidemics in Ottoman history. Orhan Pamuk is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose works such as My Name is Red drew masterfully on the literature and art of early modern Ottoman society. In an ongoing project, Pamuk is tur...
Narratives of Slavery in Late Ottoman Egypt
November 25, 2016 19:18with Eve Troutt Powell hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The epithet "abid," Arabic for "slave," still follows those with dark skin as they move around today's Cairo. The word and its negative connotations, however, have a long history. In this episode, Professor Eve Troutt Powell explores this history by tracing the many lives of slaves and slavery in late Ottoman Egypt. She draws on the narratives of Ottoman Egyptian elites, Sudane...
Compiling Knowledge in the Medieval Islamic World
November 16, 2016 15:27with Elias Muhanna hosted by Chris Gratien and Zoe Griffith readings by Nora Lessersohn Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Classical encyclopedias and compendia such as Pliny’s Natural History have long been known to Western audiences, but the considerably more recent works of medieval Islamic scholars have been comparatively ignored. In this episode, we talk to Elias Muhanna about his new translation of a fourteenth-century Arabic compendium by Egyptian schol...
Nouveau Literacy in the 18th Century Levant
November 11, 2016 22:53with Dana Sajdi hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In the conventional telling of the intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamicate world, there has been very little room for people outside the ranks of the learned scholars or ulema associated with the religious, intellectual, and political elite of Muslim communities. But in this episode, we explore the writings of Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, an 18t...
Architecture and Late Ottoman Historical Imagination
November 08, 2016 20:41with Ahmet Ersoy hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What happens when we encounter "Orientalist" aesthetics outside the West? In the late nineteenth century, a cosmopolitan group of Ottoman architects turned to modern forms of art history writing to argue that synthesis and change stood at the heart of a particularly "Ottoman" architectural aesthetic. Working together, these writers produced the first text of modern art history writin...
The Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions
October 24, 2016 00:20with Ali Yaycioglu hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The turn of the nineteenth century was a period of tumult and transformation in the Ottoman Empire as in many places around the world from France to Haiti, China, and the United States. With people, ideas, and armies on the move as never before, new geopolitical pressures pushed states around the globe to reinvent their relationships to their subjects and citizens. In this episode, we ...
Both Citizens and Strangers in Post-1948 Israel
October 20, 2016 13:27with Shira Robinson hosted by Graham Auman Pitts Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The Palestinian Arabs who remained within the borders of Israel after the 1948 war became citizens of the new state. But in those early years Arab villages lived under military rule that would last nearly two decades. In this episode, Shira Robinson discusses the research for her book Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State, which examines...
Nationality and Citizenship in Mandate Palestine
October 16, 2016 23:03with Lauren Banko hosted by Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The 1925 Palestine Citizenship Order-in-Council, passed by the British government and implemented in the Palestine Mandate, was the first piece of mandate legislation to officially recognize Palestine's Arab community as citizens of Palestine rather than 'ex-enemy Ottoman subjects.' This marked a change in the legal position of Palestine's Arab residents, and a confirmation of the de...
La prostitution en Algérie à l’époque Ottomane et française
October 12, 2016 20:03avec Aurélie Perrier animée par Dorothée Myriam Kellou Télécharger Flux RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud L’histoire de l’Algérie coloniale est souvent abordée du point de vue des bouleversements économiques et politiques engendrés par l’occupation française. Mais cette dernière entraîna un remaniement dans la sphère de l’intime qui fut tout aussi significatif, bien que peu étudié. Dans cet épisode, Aurélie Perrier se penche sur la question de l’évolution des formes de sexualités ...
Colonialism and the Politics of Identity in Morocco
September 14, 2016 21:56with Jonathan Wyrtzen hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa, European colonial rule lasted only for a matter of decades, and yet its influence in the realms of politics and economy have been profound. In this episode, we talk to Jonathan Wyrtzen about the legacy of colonialism in Morocco for the politics of identity, which is the subject of his new book entitled Making Morocco. As Dr. Wy...
Osmanlı İstanbul’unda Gece ve Sokaklar
August 26, 2016 13:48Nurçin İleri Ufuk Adak'ın sunuculuğuyla Bölümü indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde, Nurçin İleri ile geç dönem Osmanlı İstanbul’unda gece, korku ve suç ilişkisi üzerine konuştuk. Farklı toplumsal tabakalardan insanların, demografik ve fiziksel anlamda hızla dönüşen kent mekanınını sokakların aydınlatılması çalışmaları, geceleri mobilite, kamusal eğlence ve aktivitelerin kontrolü ekseninde nasıl deneyimledikleri ve ne hissettiklerini tart...
The Ottoman Red Sea
August 16, 2016 10:03with Alexis Wick hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The body of water now known as the Red Sea lay well within the bounds of the Ottoman Empire's well-protected domains for nearly four centuries. It wasn't until the 19th century, however, that this body of water began to be called or conceived of as "the Red Sea" by either Ottomans or Europeans. In this episode, Professor Alexis Wick argues that we have much to learn about how history...
African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir
August 10, 2016 15:19with Michael Ferguson hosted by Chris Gratien and Saghar Sadeghian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | SoundCloud The Ottoman slave trade, which was part of an increasingly globalized trafficking network of the early modern period, brought millions of people from the surrounding regions of Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Ottoman Empire. While abolition and emancipation movements occurred in various forms throughout the last century of the empire's history, slavery remained in practice ...
Armenian Photography in Ottoman Anatolia
August 04, 2016 10:10with Armen T. Marsoobian hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Interest in Ottoman photography has tended to focus on the orientalist gaze or the view from the imperial center. In this episode, Armen T. Marsoobian offers us the unique lens of the Dildilian family of Armenian photographers in provincial Anatolia. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Dildilians worked to memorialize portraits of fragmenting families and to document ev...
Ottoman Commentaries on Islamic Philosophy
July 26, 2016 21:01with Eric van Lit hosted by Nir Shafir and Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | SoundCloud Commentaries are a common, even a nearly ineluctable, part of the textual landscape of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Especially when it came to philosophy, commentaries were perhaps the main venue of discussions. An earlier generation of scholars believed these commentaries to be derivative but we now see them as a major piece in the development of the philosophical tradition in t...
Literacies and the Emergence of Modern Egypt
July 11, 2016 11:23with Hoda Yousef hosted by Graham Pitts Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the late nineteenth century, Egyptian society witnessed the rise of new debates and practices concerning reading and writing in the Arabic language. In this episode, Hoda Yousef explores the discources surrounding literacy in Egypt, which is the subject of her first book entitled Composing Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2016). This work examines how different actors from Islami...
Neo-Ottoman Architecture and the Transnational Mosque
July 01, 2016 22:29with Kishwar Rizvi hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud As spaces fundamental to Muslim religious and communal life, mosques have historically served as sites of not just architectural but also ideological construction. As our guest Kishwar Rizvi argues in her latest book entitled The Transnational Mosque (UNC Press 2015), states operating in transnational contexts have taken a leading role in the building of mosques and in doing so, they ...
Ecevit, Art, and Politics in 1950s Turkey
April 30, 2016 01:02with Sarah-Neel Smith hosted by Nicholas Danforth Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud Although artistic production occurs in a political context, art and politics are often studied as separate fields of historical inquiry. Our guest in this episode, Dr. Sarah-Neel Smith, offers a reflection on the close relationship between art and politics in Turkey through a discussion of her research on the figure of Bülent Ecevit. As a politician, Ecevit is remembered for his four stints...
Morocco’s New Migrant Class
April 27, 2016 19:10with Isabella Alexander hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud “Hrig,” the Moroccan Arabic term for “illegal” immigration, translates to “burning.” In the latest episode of Tajine, Isabella Alexander discusses the dramatic rise in sub-Saharan migrants attempting to enter the E.U. from Morocco - now the primary entry point for all African migrations north. As Spanish officials start exploring their border controls further south in response, h...
Caliphate: an idea throughout history
April 16, 2016 01:43with Hugh Kennedy hosted by Taylan Güngör Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud What is a caliphate? Who can be caliph? What is the history of the idea? How can we interpret and use it today? In this podcast we discuss with Prof Hugh Kennedy his forthcoming book The Caliphate (Pelican Books) and the long-term historical context to the idea of caliphate. Tracing the history from the choosing of the first caliph Abu Bakr in the immediate aftermath of the Prophet Muhammad’s death...
Economics and Justice in the Ottoman Courts
April 11, 2016 19:31with Boğaç Ergene hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Were Ottoman courts just? Boğaç Ergene discusses this basic question in this podcast by forging a new path beyond the earlier views of the justice system as inherently fickle and capricious—immortalized in Weber’s concept of kadijustiz—and the idealistic views of Ottoman courts as a site of equal and fair treatment for all. Drawing on the results of research for his forthcoming publication w...
Yemeğin Politik Tarihi
March 27, 2016 14:17Burak Onaran Ufuk Adak'ın sunuculuğuyla yemeğin politik tarihinden bahsettik. Bölümü dinle Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü'nden tarihçi Burak Onaran ile yemeğin ve mutfağın siyasi ve toplumsal tarihini konuşuyoruz. Son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda kamu diplomasisi açısından Osmanlı mutfağını nasıl okuyabiliriz? Osmanlı mutfağından Türk mutfağına geçiş, mutfağın ve yemeğin ulusallaş...
Foodways in Medieval Anatolia
March 23, 2016 01:44with Nicolas Trépanier hosted by Nir Shafir and Polina Ivanova Nir Shafir and Polina Ivanova with Nicolas Trépanier. Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud At the heart of medieval political economies were a variety of practices, structures, and activities that revolved around the production and distribution of food. In this episode, Nicolas Trépanier discusses his research for Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia, which examines life in the early Ottoman E...
Venetian Physicians in the Ottoman Empire
March 18, 2016 16:01with Valentina Pugliano hosted by Nir Shafir This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise. Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Starting in the fifteenth century, medical doctors from the Italian peninsula began accompanying Venetian consular missions to cities in the Mamluk and Ottoman empires. These doctors treated not only Venetian consular officials, but also local artisans and rulers. In this podcast, Va...
The American University of Beirut and the British Mandates
March 15, 2016 14:53with Hilary Falb Kalisman hosted by Huma Gupta, Chris Gratien, and Nir Shafir Hilary Falb talks about her research on AUB during the mandate period. Download the podcast Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud During the late Ottoman period, the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut became a leading center of higher education in the Eastern Mediterranean and for the Arab world in particular. With the establishment of British and French Mandates in the Middle East following the First...
Gender, Politics, and Passion in the Christian Middle East
March 08, 2016 15:04with Akram Khater hosted by Graham Pitts . Scholars have long neglected the Middle East’s Christian communities in general and Christian women in particular. In this episode, Akram Khater draws attention to the biography of Hindiyya al-'Ujaimi (1720-1798) to explore the religious and political upheavals of 18th-century Aleppo and Mount Lebanon. Hindiyya’s story speaks to the dynamic history of the Maronite Church, the fraught encounter between Arab and European Christianities, and the r...
Osmanlı'da Vergi Siyaseti (1839-1908)
February 10, 2016 20:28Nadir Özbek Prof. Dr. Nadir Özbek ile son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda vergi siyaseti ve toplumsal adaleti konuşuyoruz. Bölümü dinle Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Ondokuzuncu yüzyılda Osmanlı merkezi yönetimi vergi gelirlerini nasıl ve hangi koşullarda arttırabilmişti? Bu vergi artışının toplumsal ve siyasal bedeli ne olmuştu? Bu podcastimizde, Prof. Dr. Nadir Özbek ile son dönem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda vergi siyaseti ve toplumsal adaleti konuşuyoruz. « Click for Mo...
Mapping the Medieval World in Islamic Cartography
January 13, 2016 00:39with Karen Pinto hosted by Nir Shafir In the latest addition to our series on history of science, Nir Shafir talks to Karen Pinto about her research on Islamic cartography and mapping. This episode is part of an ongoing series entitled History of Science, Ottoman or Otherwise. Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Hundreds of cartographic images of the world and its regions exist scattered throughout collections of medieval and early modern Arabic, Persia...