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Ottoman Encounters
My goal is to make Ottoman and Middle Eastern history more accessible to a general audience.
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An Ottoman Age of Exploration?
A close look at Giancarlo Casale's influential, contested book on the Ottoman Empire and the Indian Ocean.
Coffee and Coffeehouses in the Ottoman Empire
The rise of a new kind of public life, and the state's long, failed war against it
A New Mini-Class in September: Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
Coffeehouses, markets, and neighborhoods: five weeks on the Ottoman Empire most history skips. Join me.
Books as Political Instruments
How Ottoman courtiers used illustrated histories to fight for power
Jane Hathaway on the Cairo Genizah's Forgotten Ottoman Centuries
What a neglected archive tells us about Ottoman Egypt's Jewish community and the empire around it.
How Did Beirut Turn Itself Into a Modern City?
On how a walled Ottoman town talked, built, and wrote its way into becoming a provincial capital, and why the credit belongs to Beirutis rather than to Istanbul or Europe.
Some Changes I’m Making to Ottoman Encounters
And a curated reading list on the Ottoman imperial harem
Healthy or Diseased: Drawing the Boundaries of the Nation
How World War I taught Ottoman prisoners and their doctors to imagine the nation as a body that could sicken
Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire: A Five-Week Mini-Class
How people actually lived in the early modern Ottoman world: markets, households, women's lives, festivals, and coffeehouses.