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I get asked about slavery in the Ottoman Empire quite a bit. The answers people expect tend to fall into one of two categories. Either Ottoman slavery gets conflated with Atlantic slavery or as is more often the case, it is treated as somet...
The histories of the First World War are mostly Euro-centric, with the Western Front dominating the narratives. If the Ottoman Empire makes an appearance at all, it is usually as a backdrop or as an explanation of how the “Sick Man of Europ...
By the end of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire’s days of glory were long over.
The colonial powers of Europe were eating away at its territories, with France invading Algeria (1830) and Tunis (1881) and Britain occupying Egypt in 1882....
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This is the latest installment of my Book Recommendation Round-up series.
As always, I’ll include links to the books in case you want to explore them in more detail. I don’t, however, have any affiliat...
Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red is one of those books that many people have heard of but did not have the chance to read. Others may even have gone through the text without really appreciating the deep historical and artistic context which fra...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Historian (Phd, 2020). My goal is to make Ottoman and Middle Eastern history more accessible to a general audience.
Political scientist and author.
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