Ottoman History Podcast
313 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsInterviews with historians about the history of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Visit https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/ for hundreds more archived episodes.
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Good Poets & Bad Poetry at the Ottoman Court
June 28, 2019 11:33Episode 416 with Sooyong Kim hosted by Nir Shafir and Elisabetta Benigni Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What made for a good poet in the Ottoman Empire? It is a question that far too few historians tackle because Ottoman poetry, especially that of the court, is often regarded as inaccessible. In this podcast, Sooyong Kim brings to life the social world of Ottoman poets, focusing in particular on Zati, a poet plying his trade in the imperial court in the fi...
Mütareke İstanbul'unda Direniş ve Sol
June 20, 2019 15:07Bölüm 415 Erol Ülker Sunucu: Önder Eren Akgül Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Bu bölümde Erol Ülker ile 1918 - 1923 yılları arasında İstanbul'da işgal güçlerine karşı oluşan direniş hareketini, bu hareket içerisinde yer alan İttihatçılar'dan, komünistlere farklı kesimlerin siyasal faaliyetlerini, birbirileri ile olan ilişkilerini ve gerilimlerini konuştuk. Ayrıca dönem içinde çok canlı olan işçi hareketine ve aynı zamanda da İstanbullu gayr-i Müslimler tarafından...
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 discu...
A Transnational History of Kemalism
June 09, 2019 14:17Episode 413 with Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, and Emmanuel Szurek hosted by Andreas Guidi Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 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 ma...
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...
Turkino
May 02, 2019 13:49Episode 411 Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien Episode Consultant: Devin Naar Series Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda Script Editor: Sam Dolbee with additional contributions by Devi Mays, Claudrena Harold, Victoria Saker Woeste, Sam Negri, and Louis Negri Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Leo lived in New York City with his family. Born and educated in the cosmopolitan Ottoman capital of Istanbul, he was now part of the vibrant and richly-textured social f...
II. Meşrutiyet'te Kitle Hareketi, Boykotlar ve Milliyetçilik
April 17, 2019 18:28Bölüm 410 Y. Doğan Çetinkaya Sunucu: Önder Eren Akgül Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde Doğan Çetinkaya ile 1908 - 1914 yılları arasında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda ortaya çıkan boykot hareketlerine odaklanarak, II. Meşrutiyet dönemindeki kitle hareketi mefhumunu, toplumsal sınıfların siyasal alandaki yeni rollerini, Müslüman-Türk milliyetçiliğin aşağıdan toplumsal bir olgu olarak gelişimini ve Osmanlı toplumsal ve siyasal ikl...
France & Algeria: Origins and Legacies
April 07, 2019 18:54Episode 409 with Jennifer Sessions hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 1827, Hussein Dey, the Ottoman governor of Algiers, hit a French consul on the nose with a fly whisk during a dispute over unpaid French debts. And as the story goes, the rest is history. France soon invaded Algeria and stayed for over 130 years. But as our guest in this episode Jennifer Sessions explains, France's decision to invade and colonize Algeria beginning i...
Making Environmental Subjects on the Egyptian Nile
April 03, 2019 00:27Episode 408 with Jennifer Derr hosted by Edna Bonhomme Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Colonialism and violence are frequently paired in studies of the modern Middle East, but environment and violence are less commonly paired. But in this episode, Jennifer Derr explains the indelible connection between the two in a conversation about her recent monograph The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. According to Derr, the tran...
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 ...
Bosnian Comrades on Hajj
March 17, 2019 09:22Episode 406 with Dženita Karić hosted by Taylan Güngör This episode explores the post-World War II travelogues of Bosnian journalist Hasan Ljubunčić, who went on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca after the Second World War. His narrative showcases the entanglements between religion and politics, Bosnian Muslims and their contemporaries in Turkey and the broader Muslim world, and socialism and Islamic modernism. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Bosnian Hajjis sought alliance...
Status Quo Utopias in the UAE
March 11, 2019 15:49Episode 405 with Gökçe Günel hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud About half-hour's drive from Abu Dhabi sits Masdar City, a clean technology and renewable energy business cluster and research institute. Founded in 2006, Masdar imagines a sustainable and business-savvy future where technology, ecology, and humanity co-exist and thrive, even in the oil-rich deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. In this episode we speak with Gökçe Günel, wh...
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 embrac...
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 relat...
Histories of Childhood and Youth in the Middle East
February 19, 2019 14:48Episode 402 with Dylan Baun, Heidi Morrison, and Murat Yildiz hosted by Suzie Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Does everybody have a childhood? What kinds of childhood experiences have defined the modern Middle East? In this episode, three scholars discuss the methodological excitements and challenges of studying the history of childhood and youth in the modern Middle East. They discuss the roles of institutions like the army, the medical mission, an...
Hadith Interpretation from Andalusia to South Asia
February 11, 2019 16:40Episode 401 with Joel Blecher hosted by Shireen Hamza and Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Since the early centuries of Islam, Muslims have put tremendous effort into knowing and verifying reports of what the Prophet Mohammad said and did, known as hadith. They have written books collecting hadith, and even longer books explaining what they mean and how they should inform Muslim life. However, these books emerged (and continue to emerge) from a ...
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...
Turkish Economic Development Since 1820
January 17, 2019 15:32Episode 398 with Şevket Pamuk hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What forces have governed Turkey's economic growth over the past two centuries? In this episode we speak with Şevket Pamuk about development in Turkey since 1820. In the late Ottoman period, low barriers to trade, agrarian exports, and European financial control defined the limits of economic expansion, while the transition from Empire to Republic brought more inward-...
Crisis and Development in 20th Century Iraq
January 08, 2019 15:21Episode 397 with Sara Pursley hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What is "development?" What can we learn about this key concept of the 20th century world by looking at it through the history of modern Iraq? In this episode, Sara Pursley unpacks the history of "development" in many forms to show how ideas about what the future should look like have governed what's possible in the present and the ways that we can narrate the past. Fro...
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 turni...
Autonomy and Resistance in Ottoman Kurdistan
December 29, 2018 18:08Episode 395 with Metin Atmaca hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Zones of autonomy and resistance make up the region historically called Kurdistan - areas that can include parts of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Armenia - depending on whom you ask. This region, whose territory spans the boundaries of nation-states created after the First World War, continues to host conflict between powerful states and their opponents. Who ruled th...
Secret Archives and Sacred Texts in Gujarat
December 23, 2018 10:20Episode 394 with Olly Akkerman hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How do you conduct research on an archive you can’t talk about? This was the problem faced by our guest Olly Akkerman on her research trip to Gujarat when she went to work on the manuscript library of the Alawi Bohra community of Baroda. The sacred library was only accessible to the leaders of the Bohra community and its contents can’t be revealed publicly. In this podcast,...
Excavating Pre-Islamic Arabic
December 13, 2018 03:41Episode 393 with Elias Muhanna hosted by Sarah Baldwin Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Sarah Baldwin talks with Elias Muhanna about an essay he wrote for the New Yorker in May 2018 in which he describes recent advances in translating pre-Islamic Arabic texts. The conversation focuses on the groundbreaking translations of Muhanna's friend and colleague Ahmad Al-Jallad and how his work has changed our understanding of life on the Arabian penin...
II. Meşrutiyet İstanbul'unda Sosyalist Rumlar ve İşçiler
December 07, 2018 22:08Bölüm 392 Stefo Benlisoy Sunucu: Önder Akgül Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Bu bölümde Stefo Benlisoy ile II. Meşrutiyet döneminde Osmanlı sosyalist ve işçi hareketinin oluşumunu ve gelişimini konuşup Osmanlı'daki sosyalist grupların faaliyetlerini, yayınlarını, ve geliştirdiği siyasal perspektifleri incelemenin Osmanlı-Türkiye tarihini ve tarih yazımını anlamak açısından nasıl alternatif kanallar açabileceğine değindik. Özel olarak da Mayıs 1909’dan başlayarak...
Getting High at the Gates of Felicity
November 30, 2018 20:40Episode 391 with Stefano Taglia hosted by Taylan Güngör Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The use of stimulants, what we now refer to as recreational drugs (marijuana and hashish – esrar and haşiş), in the late Ottoman world constitutes a lens through which one can observe multiple aspects of both the history of the Ottoman Empire and its historiography in its broader sense. The life and social dynamics of those involved in drug consumption contributes to sk...
Syrian in Sioux Falls
November 05, 2018 00:07Episode 390 Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien Episode Consultant: Reem Bailony Series Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda Script Editor: Sam Dolbee with additional contributions by Akram Khater, Graham Pitts, Linda Gordon, Victoria Saker Woeste, Nadim Shehadi, and Mohamed Okdie Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In the years after the world war that ravaged the Ottoman Empire, Hassan left his native village in modern-day Lebanon to join his parents and siblin...
Transfer and Partition in the Middle East
October 31, 2018 21:42Episode 389 with Laura Robson hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In the wake of the First World War, the League of Nations oversaw internationally-recognized projects of separation and transfer as the new borders of the Middle East were drawn under the influence of British and French imperial rule. In this episode, we speak to Laura Robson about her research for the book States of Separation, which studied how imperial rule under the man...
The English in 17th-Century Tangier
October 25, 2018 15:29Episode 388 with Karim Bejjit hosted by Graham Cornwell Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Tangier is in the midst of a massive renovation and expansion -- a new ferry and cruise port, a duty-free zone, and the massive Tangier Med shipping facility all meant to make the city and Morocco into a critical juncture of the global flows of goods, people, services, and capital. Of course, Tangier’s proximity to Europe and position astride the Strait of Gibraltar has l...
The Incredible Life of Antoine Köpe
October 20, 2018 17:06Episode 387 with Nefin Dinç hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Antoine Köpe was never a prominent politician or public figure, but he was witness to extraordinary events. Born in late Ottoman Istanbul to French and Hungarian parents, Antoine was there to celebrate the 1908 Young Turk revolution, fight in the First World War, live under an Allied occupation, and experience the emergence of the national resistance and the establishment of ...
America, Turkey, and the Middle East
October 15, 2018 13:42Episode 386 with Suzy Hansen hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Turkey is a country that most Americans know little about, and yet the United States has played an extraordinary role in the making of modern Turkey. In this podcast, we explore this disparity of awareness and the role of the US in the history of the Middle East through the lens of an American journalist's slow realization of her own subjectivity and the myriad ways in whic...
Imagining Iraq
October 13, 2018 19:52Episode 385 with Ahmed Ragab hosted by Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Ventricles Podcast | SimpleCast| GooglePlay What will Iraq be like, 100 years in the future? And how are Muslim women imagined to exist in that future? In this episode, Professor Ahmed Ragab explores literary imaginaries of the future of the Middle East. He starts by discussing the story, Kahramana, from the recent short-story collection edited by Hassan Blasim, Iraq +100. He compares the story...
Osmanlı'da Kadınlar ve Mimarlık Üretimi
October 09, 2018 23:27Bölüm 384 Muzaffer Özgüleş Sunucu: Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Toplumsal cinsiyet bakış açısının son birkaç on yılda Osmanlı tarih yazımına yaptığı müdahaleler, saray kadınlarının imar faaliyetlerinde üstlendiği rolün giderek daha çok araştırılmasına da vesile oldu. Muzaffer Özgüleş’i konuk ettiğimiz bu bölümde, Sultan IV. Mehmed’in hasekisi, Sultan II. Mustafa ve Sultan III. Ahmed’in validesi Gülnuş Emetullah Sultan’ın imar faaliyetlerini detayland...
Islamic Law and Commerce in the Indian Ocean
October 05, 2018 01:15Episode 383 with Fahad Ahmad Bishara hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The history of capitalism and the world economy, while increasingly global in its perspectives, remains a Eurocentric story, and one struggles to find the place of non-European modes of exchange and legal frameworks such as Islamic law within the big picture. In this episode, we talk to Fahad Ahmad Bishara about his book A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the We...
Ottoman Armenians and the Politics of Conscription
October 03, 2018 01:30Episode 382 with Ohannes Kılıçdağı hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The history of Ottoman Armenians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ottoman Empire is inevitably in the shadow of 1915. In today’s episode, we explore new approaches to this history with Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı. We speak in particular about the hopes that the empire’s Armenian citizens attached to the 1908 Constitutional Revolution, which were high indeed. ...
Violence and the Archives
October 01, 2018 00:44Episode 381 with Ümit Kurt & Owen Miller hosted by Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz presented by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The historian who wishes to study episodes of mass violence is confronted by numerous challenges. Perpetrators of violence may seek to obscure or distort historical events; victims are often left without a voice. Accounts found in newspapers, books, and archives may offer vivid detail but frame events in a biased or incom...
The Many Lives of a Medieval Library
September 25, 2018 10:15Episode 380 with Konrad Hirschler hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud When does a concubine need to join the reading group? And should the six-month old son come along as well? The answers are in our interview with Konrad Hirschler on the libraries of medieval Damascus. Using the original catalog of the Ashrafiyya Library of Damascus, Hirschler discusses the types of books that were donated to libraries, the surprising reading interests of me...
The Hamidian Quest for Tribal Origins
September 18, 2018 23:51Episode 379 with Ahmet Ersoy & Deniz Türker hosted by Matthew Ghazarian and Zeinab Azarbadegan Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did the Ottomans come to visually represent their mythical origins? And to what ends? In this episode we speak with Ahmet Ersoy and Deniz Türker about the formation, development, and visualization of Ertuğrul sancak, the mythical birthplace of the Ottoman dynasty. In 1886, Sultan Abdülhamid II commissioned an expedition of milit...
Mihri Rasim Between Empire and Nation
September 14, 2018 01:17Episode 378 with Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu hosted by Sam Dolbee and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Many myths have accompanied the life of Mihri Rasim, but few are as interesting as her life itself. Born to a wealthy family in Istanbul in the late Ottoman period, Mihri Rasim became a politically connected painter, living in Italy for several years on her own and then Paris, where she played a key role in the salons of Ottoman dissidents known as t...
Special Feature: Ventricles Podcast
September 12, 2018 15:13Episode 377 by Shireen Hamza Ventricles Episode 1: Telling Time featuring Sara Schechner and Avner Wishnitzer Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | Ventricles Podcast | SimpleCast The Ottoman History Podcast is featuring episode one of Ventricles, a new podcast about interesting topics in science and technology, past and present. Ventricles is written and produced by OHP contributor Shireen Hamza for the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and also features...
Kolay Gelsin: İstanbul'da Meslekler ve Mekânlar
September 09, 2018 12:26Bölüm 376 Rita Ender Sunucular: Işın Taylan ve Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Mesleğiniz tarih sayfalarından silinirse ne hissedersiniz? İstanbul'da yüzlerce meslek artık yok ve yok olmaya devam ediyor. Bu bölümde, Rita Ender ile Kolay Gelsin kitabı üzerine konuşuyoruz. Kolay Gelsin Agos Gazetesi’nde 2012 - 2014 yılları arasında Meslekler ve Mekanlar adıyla yayınlanmış söyleşilerden oluşuyor ve her bir söyleşi İstanbul tarihine, esnaflığa,...
The Early Records of Arabic Music
September 03, 2018 15:16Episode 375 with Peter Laurence hosted by Maryam Patton, Abdul Latif and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The rise of record labels and new recording technologies played an important role in the history of the Nahda (Arabic Renaissance). In Egypt and Lebanon, independent labels like Baidaphon competed with their American and European counterparts to record local singers and popular music styles in an effort to preserve Arab voices. For the firs...
Kazakhs and the State in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union
August 31, 2018 22:04Episode 374 with Ian Campbell & Maria Blackwood Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How did Russia rule its Central Asian borderlands? In this podcast, we explore the long history of local intermediaries in imperial rule through the lens of the Kazakh elite from the 18th century onward. We talk to Ian Campbell about his book Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Cornell University Press) and then contin...
Migrant Labor in Contemporary Beirut
August 19, 2018 17:13Episode 373 with Sumayya Kassamali hosted by Shireen Hamza and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Who do you think of, when you think of Beirut? In this episode, we speak to Sumayya Kassamali about the many non-citizen workers living in Beirut today, and how migration, race, class and gender affect their lives there. Many domestic workers who have migrated from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and other countries to work in Beirut have fled their empl...
The International Origins of US Deportation Policy
August 18, 2018 06:21Episode 372 with Torrie Hester hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Deportation is one of the fundamental practices through which modern nations. But modern forms of deportation cannot take place without diplomatic arrangements and internationally agreed upon practices for removing people from within the borders of a country. In this episode, we speak to Torrie Hester, author of a new book entitled Deportation: the Origins of U.S. Policy, ...
The Rise of the American Deportation State
August 17, 2018 06:11Episode 371 with Emily Pope-Obeda hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In recent decades, the US has come to deport hundreds of thousands of people every year. However, the roots of the laws and institutions that facilitate deportation are much deeper. In this episode, we focus on the period of the 1920s, the era during which the US began to deport thousands of people for the first time in its history. As our guest Emily Pope-Obeda explain...
Deporting Ottoman Americans
August 09, 2018 20:55Episode 370 narrated by Chris Gratien Chief Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda Script Editor: Sam Dolbee with additional contributions by Torrie Hester and Devin Naar Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Most Americans descend from people born elsewhere. But what if instead of simply a nation of immigrants, we see our society as a eugenicist project forged by immigration quotas and selective deportation policies? This proposal may fly in the face of the civic nationa...
The Sultan's Eunuch
August 05, 2018 07:40Episode 369 with Jane Hathaway hosted by Sanja Kadrić and Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud For more than three centuries, a cadre of African eunuchs were responsible for guarding the Ottoman harem at the imperial palace in Istanbul. The head of this group, the Chief Harem Eunuch, emerged as an extremely influential individual at the court. This was especially true during the crisis years of the long seventeenth century, when the palace became ...
Writing History in Historic Times
July 26, 2018 06:49Episode 368 with Omar Mohammed narrated by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What does it mean to study the past in the midst of momentous change in the present? In this special episode, we discuss history and history-in-the-making with Omar Mohammed, a scholar and activist from Mosul. For several years, Omar was an undercover chronicler of ISIS through the blog and Facebook group Mosul Eye. Currently, he is working on a Ph.D. project about the hi...
The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine
July 17, 2018 07:05Episode 367 with Salim Tamari hosted by Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Nationalism has greatly influenced the way we think about Palestinian history. In this episode, Salim Tamari discusses this question in relation to his new book, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine, which explores Palestine under Ottoman rule during World War I. Tamari highlights the transformative nature of the conflict in Palestine, and the Ottomanist roots of many ...