Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and ...

Nefise Kahraman on Translation Attached, which brings lesser known Ottoman and Turkish literary gems to an English-reading audience. Translation Attached just published its seventh book, a volume of 25 short stories by the late author and diplomat Memduh Sevket Esendal (1883-1952 ...  Show more

Dimitar Bechev on “The Scramble for Europe: Russia, China, and Turkey Challenging Regional Order” (Oxford University Press). The book questions whether Ankara can be placed alongside Moscow and Beijing as a direct competitor to the EU, with a fundamentally different view on the c ...  Show more

In this episode we talk about what's happening with Syrian refugees in Turkey. This is part of a two-part series. Next week we will talk about European policies towards Turkey that make Europe complicit in the situation. Thank you to Kit Roberts for suggesting this topic. For tra ...  Show more

In this episode we talk about how Europe is implicated in the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey. This is second part of a two-part series. Thank you to Kit Roberts for suggesting this topic. For transcripts and translations, or to sign up for Arabic classes, go to https://re ...  Show more

Through years of Syria’s messy civil war, Turkey has been a foe. As the conflict slowly fades, the countries have a mutual interest</ ...

This is a conversation with Shareah Taleghani, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Arabic at Queens College at the City University of New York and the author of the book "Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights" published by Syracuse Universit ...  Show more