Ottoman History Podcast
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Late Ottoman Translations of Ibn Khaldun
June 15, 2017 18:09Episode 316 with Kenan Tekin hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Among the many important medieval texts written in Arabic, few have received more attention from scholars in Europe than The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history by the 14th-century North African writer Ibn Khaldun. In this episode, we explore another of arena for reception of Ibn Khaldun, the Ottoman Empire, with our guest Kenan Tekin. We examine Ottoman translations of ...
Early French Encounters with the Ottomans
May 22, 2017 23:59Episode 315 with Pascale Barthe hosted by Nir Shafir and Michael Talbot Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Orientalist representations loom large in the history of 19th-century colonialism and European engagement with the late Ottoman Empire. But how did the orientalist discourses of the late Ottoman period compare with European representations of the Ottoman Empire during its early rise? In this episode, Pascale Barthe revisits this question through the lens ...
Jewish Salonica and the Greek Nation
May 19, 2017 04:52Episode 314 with Devin Naar hosted by Nir Shafir and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Salonica was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world until its liquidation by the Nazis in 1943. Historians often mark the beginning of the end of the Jewish community in 1913 when the city was annexed by Greece. Devin Naar challenges this presumption in this podcast by looking at how the Jewish community c...
The Idea of the Muslim World
May 16, 2017 14:16Episode 313 with Cemil Aydın hosted by Chris Gratien and Abdul Latif Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In political discourses today, the “Muslim world” is evoked in a variety of contexts, ranging from pan-Islamic visions of political unity to a set of racist generalizations that present roughly a fifth of the world’s population as a monolithic whole. But as our guest in this episode, Cemil Aydın explains in his new book The Idea of the Muslim World, the very...
Podcasting the Ottomans
April 25, 2017 23:11Episode 312 with Dana Sajdi and the students of Boston College hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud More and more, podcasts are appearing on university syllabi. But is it possible to conduct an entire university course that revolves around the podcast medium? In this special episode, we sit down with Dana Sajdi and a class of over 20 students at Boston College who are enrolled in an experimental course entitled "Podcasting the Ottomans." ...
Military Education and the Last Ottoman Generation
April 07, 2017 00:45Episode 311 with Michael Provence hosted by Nir Shafir and Reem Bailony Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud For much of the twentieth century, military officers have been the most successful political operatives in Middle East politics. In this episode we explore the conditions that gave rise to these figures from their schooling to the disingenuous colonial politics of the interwar mandates. Our guest, Michael Provence, speaks to us about the overlooked the mi...
The Nahda and the Translators of Damietta
March 31, 2017 19:52Episode 310 with Peter Hill hosted by Nir Shafir and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The “Nahda” is often seen as the beginning of the modern intellectual revival of the Arabs, when European Enlightenment ideas were adopted by Middle Eastern thinkers from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. In this podcast with Peter Hill, we discuss a circle of Syrian Christians in Damietta, Egypt who were actively translating Greek, Italian and French Enligh...
Everyday Life and History in Ottoman Illustrated Journals
March 30, 2017 02:25Episode 309 with Ahmet Ersoy hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Photography came to the Ottoman empire almost as soon as it was invented in Europe. Over subsequent decades, however, techniques improved, cameras got cheaper and more portable, and photographic production, circulation, and collection in Ottoman lands moved outside of the rarefied circles of the elite studios and the state. In this episode, Ahmet Ersoy discusses one of t...
Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes
March 27, 2017 02:59Episode 308 with Cengiz Şişman hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In 1665, an Izmir-born Rabbi named Sabbatai Sevi (1626-76) was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His messianic movement attracted tens of thousands of followers and become known throughout the early modern world. Ottoman authorities, however, arrested Sevi in 1666, and, under duress, the charismatic leader converted to Islam. Many members of his movement followed ...
Les Jeunes Turcs: Sauver l'Empire et créer la Nation
March 23, 2017 04:36Episode 307 avec François Georgeon animée par Aurélie Perrier et Andreas Guidi Télécharger Flux RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Cross-listed on The Southeast Passage Le mouvement des Jeunes Turcs et la Révolution de 1908 bouleversent profondément le système multiethnique et multiconfessionnel de l’empire ottoman en établissant un nouveau cadre politique pour les identifications concernant l’ État et la Nation. Dans cet épisode, François Georgeon explore avec nous les origines et...
Frontiers of Nationalism in Eastern Europe
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Documenting the Destruction of Balkan Waqf Institutions
March 10, 2017 02:44Episode 305 with András Riedlmayer hosted by Shireen Hamza and Gwendolyn Collaço Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The destruction of Ottoman-era waqf institutions in the Balkans during the wars of the 1990s was extensive, from masjids and tekkes to bridges and libraries. A bibliographer at Harvard's Fine Arts Library, András Riedlmayer, traveled throughout the region to document this destruction during and after the wars. In this podcast, Riedlmayer describe...
Crimea and the Russian Empire
March 09, 2017 04:53Episode 304 with Kelly O'Neill hosted by Chris Gratien and Erin Hutchinson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud For much of the early modern period, the Crimean Khanate was the staunch ally of the Ottoman state in its rivalry with the growing Russian Empire. In this regard, Crimea's annexation by Russia in 1783 represented an major historical departure. But as our guest in this episode, Kelly O'Neill, explains, the early period of Crimea's incorporation into the...
Syrian Alawis under Ottoman Rule
March 04, 2017 21:27Episode 303 with Stefan Winter hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Although the Alawi communities of Syria have played an important role in the politics of the 20th century, the longer history of these communities has often been obscured by generalizations and discourses of mystification. In this episode, we talk to Stefan Winter about the history of the Alawis over the centuries, which is the subject of his new book A History of the ‘Al...
Les harkis restés en Algérie: tabou et non-dits
March 02, 2017 04:42Episode 302 avec Pierre Daum animée par Dorothée Myriam Kellou et Aurélie Perrier Télécharger Flux RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Depuis la fin de la guerre d’indépendance, la question des harkis agite les consciences en France comme en Algérie. Pierre Daum, journaliste au Monde Diplomatique et auteur du livre Le dernier tabou : les « harkis » restés en Algérie après l’indépendance, est parti à la rencontre de ces supplétifs de l’armée française et de leurs descendants. Dans ce...
Assyrians, Evangelicals, and Borderland Nationalism
February 21, 2017 01:51Episode 301 with Adam Becker hosted by Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman/Qajar borderlands (today’s Turco-Iranian border), East Syrian Christians had their first encounters with American Protestant missionaries. These encounters brought to the region new institutions like printing presses and American-style schools. They also helped remap Neo-Aramaic concepts for communal belonging like melat and tayepa...
Rethinking "Decline" in the Second Ottoman Empire
February 17, 2017 17:36Episode 300 with Baki Tezcan hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Did the Ottoman Empire "decline" after an initial golden age of rapid expansion and military conquest? This question has long haunted the telling of Ottoman history. Critics note that describing centuries of Ottoman history simply as "decline" makes it seem inevitable that the Empire would be defeated in World War I, emptying the story of the contingency and nuance it d...
Alevi Religious Ceremony, Architecture, and Practice
February 14, 2017 03:45Episode 299 with Angela Andersen hosted by Chris Gratien and Shireen Hamza Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, we approach the religious architecture of the Alevis, to examine how practice shapes architectural space and how socioeconomic change transforms such spaces. Many of our episodes on Ottoman History Podcast have focused on how monumental architecture, such as mosques and other buildings of religious significance, are tied to political t...
Prefabs, Chalets, and Home Making in 19th-Century Istanbul
February 12, 2017 02:03Episode 298 with Deniz Türker hosted by Taylan Güngör Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud A handful of obscure archival fragments from Sultan Abdülhamid II’s imperial library in Yıldız have revealed a curious architectural practice that took place in the urban gardens of members and officials of the Ottoman court: they had a penchant for imported chalets. In this episode, Deniz Türker discusses her research on how this relatively niche fad for importation quick...
Exploring the Art of the Qur'an
February 10, 2017 04:21Episode 297 with Massumeh Farhad & Simon Rettig hosted by Emily Neumeier Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The preeminent position of manuscript painting and poetry at the Ottoman court has been well established by historians, yet the equally important practice of commissioning and collecting sumptuously decorated copies of the Qur’an--the sacred text of Islam--has been less explored. The role of the Qur’an in the artistic culture of the Ottoman world is just...
Women and Colonial Legal Pluralism in Algeria
February 08, 2017 01:03Episode 296 with Sarah Ghabrial hosted by Edna Bonhomme and Sam Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In French Algeria, the colonial imperatives of assimilation and difference gave birth to legal pluralism. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ghabrial explains what it meant for Algerian women to have different legal structures operating at the same time. The ability to argue one's case in an Islamic court and also appeal it in French common law provided openings f...
The Politics of News in Colonial Algeria
January 23, 2017 05:23Episode 295 with Arthur Asseraf hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud We often assume that as we become increasingly connected to ever larger networks of information and news we become part of larger and more cohesive polities. In this episode, Arthur Asseraf discusses how the introduction of new networks of communication in colonial Algeria generated friction and unevenness instead of expansive flows. Looking at telegraphs, newspapers, cinem...
Ottoman Governance and the House of Phanar
January 19, 2017 02:05Episode 294 with Christine Philliou hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Christine Philliou traces the story of Istanbul's Phanariots, a group of wealthy, "Greek-identified" families who rose to play a central role in Ottoman foreign policy and diplomacy in the 17th and 18th centuries. What happened to these families in the tumultuous years preceding and following Greek independence from the Ottoman Em...
Opium Smuggling in Interwar Turkey and Beyond
January 15, 2017 02:22Episode 293 with Daniel-Joseph Macarthur-Seal hosted by Nir Shafir featuring additional material by Samuel Dolbee Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The Opium Wars and the massive trade in opium between South Asia and China over the nineteenth century attest to the prominent role of opium within the history of colonialism and globalization. But it is less well known that in the early twentieth century, the Republic of Turkey became the largest exporter of opi...
19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Saray ve İstanbul Mutfak Kültürü
January 11, 2017 06:46292. Bölüm Özge Samancı Ufuk Adak ve Nurçin İleri'nin sunumuyla Bölümü indir RSS | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Ottoman History Podcast'in bu bölümünde, Özge Samancı ile Osmanlı’da saray, elit mutfağı ve sokak yemek kültürü üzerine bir sohbet gerçekleştirdik. Osmanlı saray mutfaklarında çalışanlar arasında nasıl bir işbölümü olduğuna ve mutfağın mekansal düzenine değindik. Alaturka ve alafranga mutfak kültüründe, yemek ve içecek olarak tüketilen ürünleri ve nasıl tüketildiklerinin ...
Islam, Psychoanalysis, and the Arabic Freud
January 08, 2017 05:24Episode 291 with Omnia El Shakry hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud A tale of mutual ignorance between psychoanalysis and Islam has obscured the many creative and co-constitutive encounters between these two traditions of thought, both so prominent in the 20th century. This presumed incommensurability has hardened the lines between the "modern subject," assumed to be secular and Western, and its Others, often associated with Islam o...
The Politics of Turkish Language Reform
January 05, 2017 01:48Episode 290 with Emmanuel Szurek hosted by Chris Gratien and Aurélie Perrier featuring Seçil Yılmaz and Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud National language politics and the transformation of literacy have effected major changes in both spoken and written language over the course of the last century, but few languages have changed as dramatically as modern Turkish. The reform of the language from the 1920s onward, which not only replaced the Ot...
The Ottoman Erotic
December 18, 2016 15:20Episode 289 with İrvin Cemil Schick hosted by Susanna Ferguson and Matthew Ghazarian Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud What terms and ideas were considered erotic in early modern Ottoman literature, and what can studying them tell us about later historical periods and our own conceptions of the beauty, love, and desire? In this episode, we welcome İrvin Cemil Schick back to the podcast to discuss a project he is compiling with İpek Hüner-Cora and Helga Anetsh...
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...
War, Environment, and the Ottoman-Habsburg Frontier
October 28, 2016 03:17with Gábor Ágoston hosted by Graham Auman Pitts and Faisal Husain Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Whereas military histories once focused narrowly on armies, battles, and technologies, the new approach to military history emphasizes how armies and navies were linked to issues such as political economy, gender, and environment. In this episode, we sit down with Gábor Ágoston to discuss the principal issues concerning the relationship between the Ottoman-H...
Festivals and the Waterfront in 18th Century Istanbul
August 25, 2016 15:19with Gwendolyn Collaço hosted by Chris Gratien, Nir Shafir, and Huma Gupta Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The illustrated account of the festivals surrounding the circumcision of Sultan Ahmed III's sons in 1720 is one of the most iconic and celebrated depictions of urban life in Ottoman Istanbul. With its detailed text written by Vehbi, accompanied by the vibrant miniature paintings of Levni, this work has been used as a source for understanding the cast of...
Translating the Ottoman Novel
August 23, 2016 21:34with Melih Levi hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | SoundCloud Emerging as a literary genre towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman novel has been overshadowed by the transformation of the Turkish language and alphabet after 1928. In this episode, we speak with Melih Levi about his recent English translation with Monica Ringer of one the first examples of the Ottoman novel, Ahmed Midhat Efendi's Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi (Syracuse University Pre...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Picturing History at the Ottoman Court
January 27, 2016 16:03with Emine Fetvacı hosted by Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir Emine Fetvacı discusses her research for Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press) with Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir. Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman court became particularly invested in writing its own history. This initiative primarily took the form of official chronicles, and the court historian (şehnameci), a new posit...
Greeks in the Ottoman Empire
December 18, 2015 02:33with Molly Greene hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Nearly two centuries ago, Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire. Yet for centuries before, and for many Greeks even a century after, the story of Greek history was deeply intertwined with that of the Ottoman state, its institutions, and its other subjects. In this episode, we sit down with Molly Greene to discuss her new work on the history of Greeks from the be...
The Ottoman Empire's Sonic Past
November 20, 2015 02:45with Nina Ergin hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud When employing textual sources for history, it is easy to lose track of the fact that experiences of the past were immersed in rich sensory environments in which "the word" was only a small component of daily life. How can we restore the sights, sounds, and sensations of the Ottoman past? In this episode, Nina Ergin presents some of her research involving the sonic history of the Ottoman Emp...
Naked Anxieties in the Baths of Ottoman Aleppo
October 08, 2015 01:33with Elyse Semerdjian hosted by Chris Gratien Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud Bath houses or hamams were mainstays of the Ottoman city. But as semi-public spaces where people could mix and implicitly transgressed certain boundaries regarding nudity, they were also spaces that produced anxiety and calls for regulation. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian discusses how in a certain time and place of eighteenth century Aleppo, the issue of Muslim and Christian women ...
Central Asians and the Ottoman Empire
April 18, 2015 16:59with Lale Can hosted by Chris Gratien Within nationalist understandings of Turkish identity, connections between Central Asia and the people of modern Turkey are often conceived of in terms of ancient genealogy of Turkic peoples. But as our guest in this episode of Ottoman History Podcast Lale Can illustrates, much more recent bonds forged not by ethnic but rather spiritual affinity during the Ottoman period point to enduring connections between Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire maintai...
Slavery and Manumission in Ottoman Galata
December 11, 2014 15:45with Nur Sobers-Khan hosted by Chris Gratien and Nir Shafir The legal and social environments surrounding slavery and manumission during the early modern period varied from place to place and profession to profession. In this episode, Nur Sobers-Khan presents her exciting research on the lives of a particular population of slaves in Ottoman Galata during the late sixteenth century, how they were classified and documented under Ottoman law, and the terms by which they were able to ac...
Time and Temporal Culture in the Ottoman Empire
May 08, 2014 19:01with Avner Wishnitzer hosted by Chris Gratien In daily life, time appears as an unavoidable fact. It marches forward uniformly, and much like money, is a fungible commodity that can be spent, wasted, and saved. However, this view often obscures the fact that our engagement with time is mitigated through socially-constructed ways of understanding, measuring, and using time. In this episode, Chris Gratien talks to Anver Wishnizter about his research in this realm of social time--what ...
Echoes of the Ottoman Past: Istanbul's Historical Soundscape
May 03, 2014 12:10Istanbul is full of landmarks and objects dating to the Ottoman period that give us a glimpse of the city's material culture. However, the scents and sounds that made up the urban experience of Ottoman Istanbul often elude us. In our inaugural episode of Season 4, we explore the sounds of Istanbul today and link them to city of the Ottoman past. « Click for More »
Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia
March 08, 2014 08:53with Ayfer Karakaya-Stump hosted by Chris Gratien The history of Anatolia's Alevi or Kizilbash community has long been written by outsiders who have variously portrayed them as mysterious, heretical, heterodox, or uncivilized. Alevism has been often juxtaposed with the high religion would-be orthodox Sunni practice. This historical understanding of Alevis has continued to influence the way these communities are represented in the present. In this episode, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump challenges t...
Galata and the Capitulations
February 08, 2014 12:20with Fariba Zarinebaf hosted by Nir Shafir and Zoe Griffith The capitulations, a series of bilateral agreements with European states and merchants, are sometimes held up as symbols of early Ottoman concessions to European powers and the beginnings of Ottoman economic decline. This misreading, which is in part the product of a misinterpretation of the word "capitulation" itself, impedes a proper understanding of Ottoman Empire and the legal context of the early modern Mediterranean. In thi...
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
February 01, 2014 13:50with Mostafa Minawi hosted by Chris Gratien The Ottoman Empire occupies an unusual place among the competing imperial powers of the nineteenth century. On one hand, a weak military position often forced the Ottomans to accept unfavorable economic and political arrangements while playing other empires off each other to maintain autonomy. On the other, we find expansion of state institutions throughout the Ottoman domains and an increased Ottoman presence in many parts of Asia and the India...
Darwin in Arabic
January 08, 2014 15:48with Marwa Elshakry hosted by Chris Gratien Historians have begun to explore the paradox of the identification of a would-be universal form of rational knowledge known as science with the particular historical experience of Europe. This begs the question: how have new forms of scientific knowledge been translated, received, assimilated, and engaged outside of the cultural contexts within which they were produced? In this episode, Marwa Elshakry examines the case of Arab engagement with an...