Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.
Episodes
Saturday Oct 24, 2015
Saturday Oct 24, 2015
Michael Gunter on his book "Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War," which charts the Syrian Kurds’ rise to international prominence since 2011 from a “sleepy unimportant backwater in the Kurdish struggle.”
Saturday Oct 10, 2015
Saturday Oct 10, 2015
Ozan Özavcı discusses "Ahmet Ağaoğlu and the Genealogy of Liberalism in Turkey" (Brill), on one of the prominent intellectuals bridging the late Ottoman/early republican eras. Read a review at HDN.
Saturday Sep 12, 2015
Saturday Sep 12, 2015
Diana Darke, the author of “My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Revolution” (Haus), describes her experiences after buying a 17th century courtyard house in Damascus 10 years ago and her first-hand perspective of Syria’s descent into bloody civil war after 2011.
