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Life and Labor on the Suez Canal

Life and Labor on the Suez Canal

with Lucia Carminati hosted by Susanna Ferguson | The Suez Canal was one of the largest infrastructure projects in the late Ottoman world. Built to connect the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, the canal…
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Privileges and Nobility in Ottoman Kurdistan

Privileges and Nobility in Ottoman Kurdistan

with Nilay Özok-Gündoğan hosted by Sam Dolbee | As the Ottoman state expanded in the sixteenth century, it extended a number of privileges to elite families in Kurdistan. In this episode, Nilay Özok-…
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Osmanlı Kamusal Siyasetinin Oluşumu

Osmanlı Kamusal Siyasetinin Oluşumu

Aslıhan Gürbüzel Sunucu: Can Gümüş | Bu bölümde, Doç. Dr. Aslıhan Gürbüzel’in bu sene başında University of California Press’ten çıkan kitabı “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Politica…
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Environment and Empire in the Ottoman Jazira

Environment and Empire in the Ottoman Jazira

Samuel Dolbee hosted by Chris Gratien and Reem Bailony | What can we learn about the late Ottoman Empire from the histories of its would-be margins? In this episode, we explore that question in multi…
Wed 31 May 2023
Ottoman Boston: Discovering Little Syria

Ottoman Boston: Discovering Little Syria

with Chloe Bordewich and Lydia Harrington hosted by Meryum Kazmi and Harry Bastermajian | a collaboration with Harvard Islamica --- In this episode, we leave Harvard and Cambridge to explore the litt…
Tue 30 May 2023
The Mongols and the Medieval Near East

The Mongols and the Medieval Near East

with Nicholas Morton hosted by Maryam Patton | The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, yet its influence on the social and political history of the realms that came under…
Fri 26 May 2023
The Ottoman Empire and Eastern World Orders

The Ottoman Empire and Eastern World Orders

with Ayşe Zarakol hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottomans claimed so…
Sat 20 May 2023
Kantika: from History to Fiction, a Sephardic Journey

Kantika: from History to Fiction, a Sephardic Journey

with Elizabeth Graver hosted by Brittany White | Elizabeth Graver grew up knowing her grandmother Rebecca was from the Ottoman Empire and that her tumultuous, meandering life journey, like many in th…
Sat 13 May 2023
News, Leaks, and Propaganda in Modern Egypt

News, Leaks, and Propaganda in Modern Egypt

with Chloe Bordewich hosted by Maryam Patton | In times of conflict, state governments can be especially sensitive about protecting secrets. When new technologies are involved, like the telegraph, co…
Sat 06 May 2023
Tax Administration in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Tax Administration in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Linda Darling hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this episode, Linda Darling discusses the history of tax administration in the early modern Ottoman Empire, and how attention to it can open up a broad range o…
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire

Arab-Ottoman Imperialists at the End of Empire

with Mostafa Minawi hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What did it mean to be Arab during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire? What did it mean to be Arab and invested in continuation of the Ottoman E…
Tue 28 Mar 2023
The Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco

The Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco

with Justin Stearns hosted by Shireen Hamza and Taylor Moore | When you think of the history of science, what people and places come to mind? Scientific knowledge production flourished in early moder…
Wed 14 Dec 2022
What is Islamic Art?

What is Islamic Art?

with Wendy M. K. Shaw hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What is an image in Islam? Is its permissibility the main preoccupation of Islamic discourses? In this episode, Wendy M.K. Shaw revisits the found…
Thu 03 Nov 2022
Vernacular Photography in Early Republican Turkey

Vernacular Photography in Early Republican Turkey

with Özge Calafato hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | What can family and individual studio photographs tell us about social life in the early Republic of Turkey? In this episode, Özge Calafato highlight…
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Shipping and Empire around the Arabian Peninsula

Shipping and Empire around the Arabian Peninsula

with Laleh Khalili hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did massive, modern shipping ports emerge from the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, and what they teach us about our present forms of global exchan…
Sat 01 Oct 2022
The Life and Music of Armenian Soprano Zabelle Panosian

The Life and Music of Armenian Soprano Zabelle Panosian

with Ian Nagoski hosted by Suzie Ferguson | Zabelle Panosian's ethereal music transfixed audiences from Boston to Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. Yet, by the 1960s, her work was al…
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Water from Stone

Water from Stone

with Jesse Howell & Marijana Mišević hosted by Sam Dolbee | In this special episode of the Ottoman History Podcast, Sam Dolbee and Jesse Howell travel by bike along the Ćiro Trail from Dubrovnik in C…
Fri 16 Sep 2022
The Catastrophic Success of the Armenian Tanzimat

The Catastrophic Success of the Armenian Tanzimat

with Richard Antaramian hosted by Matthew Ghazarian | How did the Ottomans secure widespread buy-in for modernization projects across the empire's many geographies and communities? This episode explo…
Wed 04 May 2022
A New History of The Eastern Question

A New History of The Eastern Question

with Ozan Ozavci hosted by Zeinab Azarbadegan | How was European military intervention in the Ottoman Empire justified throughout the nineteenth century? What did Ottoman statesmen and subjects think…
Sat 23 Apr 2022
Moriscos and the Early Modern Mediterranean

Moriscos and the Early Modern Mediterranean

Mayte Green-Mercado hosted by Brittany White | In 1609, King Phillip III of Spain signed an edict to expel a community known as the Moriscos from the Iberian Peninsula. The Moriscos were Muslims forc…
Mon 11 Apr 2022
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