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Virtual Q&A with Giancarlo Casale, Editor and Translator of Prisoner of the Infidels
Oct 01 2021
A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life begins upon his capture and subsequent enslavement during the
The Intimate Lives of 17th-Century Women, Seen through the Eyes of a Muslim Slave
Sep 07 2021
By Giancarlo Casale, editor and translator of Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century EuropeBefore the dawn of our narcissistic modern age, detailed accounts of intimate life—and particularly of the intimate lives of women—are excruciatingly rare, present
Opposition, dissent, and the struggle for constitutional democracy in Turkey — and the U.S.?
Feb 10 2021
By Christine Philliou, author of Turkey: A Past Against HistoryImagine living in a place where the political elite is deeply divided within itself. Contradictions between constitutionalism and empire are coming into violent conflict, seemingly on a daily basis. “Minority” groups who have lon