For my latest post on Substack, I wrote about Kadriye Huseyin. Kadriye Hüseyin: A Forgotten Ottoman-Egyptian Female Intellectual open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

I started writing about Ottoman history on my Substack and this is the first post in that vein. Please share it with anyone who might be interested! Kadriye Hüseyin: A Forgotten Ottoman-Egyptian Female Intellectual open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

This week, I wrote about Fatma Aliye, a prominent feminist intellectual from the 19th-century Ottoman Empire. Please check it out, and if you enjoy it, please consider hitting the “heart” button and sharing it with anyone who might be interested! open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

My new post is up! This week, I looked at Fatma Aliye’s efforts to resist and refute the Orientalist myths that were prevalent at the end of the 19th century. Please check it out and let me know what you think! open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

My new post is up! This week, I looked at the idea of “Ottoman decline” and why it actually represents a flawed understanding of Ottoman history, especially for the 17th and 18th centuries. Hope you like it! open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

Featuring Doga Ozturk, Prof.Victoria Sutton, The Conversation, Branko Milanovic, Adam Tooze, Douglas Guilfoyle, @ntinatzouvala, @mattpdawson, Lise Butler, New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social), @mariamargaronis, Know Your Enemy, Matthew Sitman, Sam Adler-Bell, Vinson Cunningham, Arielle Angel, Shane Burley בד & Ben Lorber.

Was Mehmed Ali Pasha the “founder of modern Egypt?" open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

I'm excited to share my article on early modern diplomatic relations between Muslim empires, now published in @EarlyModHistory! I examine how the Ottomans viewed the Safavids as a buffer against Sunni dynasties in Asia. brill.com/view/journals/…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

My new article is up! This time, I wrote about the Young Ottomans, “the first modern-style opposition movement" in Ottoman history, and their most famous member, Namik Kemal. Please check it out and let me know what you think! open.substack.com/pub/afewthough…

#NewRelease #Muḥammad_Alī #Egypt #Ottoman #Historiography #Orientalism Muḥammad ʿAlī’s Soft Power in Europe Orientalist Portraits between Visual Diplomacy and Saʿidian Orientalism Hala Ghoname. De Gruyter 2025 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Pleased to share my article, "Strategic Diplomacy in Eurasia: Ottoman–Russian Rivalry in Iran, 1722–1735," published in the latest issue of Ab Imperio! If you're interested in early modern Eurasian diplomacy and the Ottoman-Russian-Iranian triangle, have a look: 🔗

Yaşananlar sadece bir kişi, kurum ya da partinin meselesi değil; ülkenin demokrasi ve hukuk düzeninin geleceğini yakından ilgilendiren önemli bir kırılma noktasıdır. Yargının siyasi amaçlarla kullanılmasının sıradanlaşması ve hukuk sisteminin iktidara yakın olanlara farklı

Sevgili vatandaşlarım, Türkiye bugün büyük bir ihanete uyandı. Yürütülen yargı süreci bir adli işlem değildir. Tam bir yargısız infazdır. Milletimizi sorumluluk duygusu içinde hak mücadelesine davet ediyorum. Bu hak mücadelesi milletimizin ve evlatlarımızın geleceği

Dimdik ayaktayız, asla eğilmeyeceğiz. Her şey çok güzel olacak! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

“Camiye ayakkabıyla girdiler” (vali açıklaması) noktasına gelindi. “Dolmabahçe yalanı” sıradadır. “İlk üç gün iyiydi…” ekibi hep hazır. Gaz, cop ve tehdit dozu artıyor. Gazeteci gözaltıları, baskınlar ve AKP’de rahatsızlar var” haberleriyle aynı resim tamam. Yaratıcılık sıfır.

#NewPublication #Colonialism #Europe #17th_century #Ottoman #Asia #Eastern_Mediterranean Mapping the World at the Dawn of the British Empire A Traveller’s Guide Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield. Oxford Univ Pr 2025 academic.oup.com/book/60546?sea…