Soner Çaǧaptay, "A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey's Uncontainable Forces" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)| Listen on Anghami

Mar 29

Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)

Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers (Fordham UP, 2026) investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema—the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre Promio, across No ... Show More

35m 56s

Mar 28

On Our Continuing Age of Oil with Journalist Stanley Reed

Stanley Reed has been covering energy and the Middle East from London for more than three decades, most recently for The New York Times. With the war in Iran and its threat to global energy supplies as backdrop, we have a wide-ranging conversation about the Age of Oil. Despite l ... Show More

46m 57s

Mar 27

James McDougall, "Worlds of Islam: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2026)

From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougall explores its origins and transformations from Late Antiquity to the digital age. Over the span of a thousand years, armies, mis ... Show More

31m 1s

Nov 2022

Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad

Gönül Tol, director of the Turkey program at the Middle East Institute, on “Erdogan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria” (Oxford University Press). The book describes how developments in Syria have helped Turkey's president divide and eliminate his domestic riva ... Show More

44 m

Apr 2024

A Turkey of an Election for Erdogan: AKP losses, CHP wins, and İmamoğlu's rising star

The recent local elections in Turkey did not go to plan for President Erdogan. The voters sent a clear message to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party and the strongman president, when they voted in unprecedented numbers for the opposition Republican People's Part ... Show More

31m 38s

May 2023

Turkish Elections: The End of Erdogan?

Turkey’s longtime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing what many describe as his toughest election yet. On Sunday, May 14th polls will open for presidential and parliamentary elections, and amid a dire economic crisis in the country, his prospects are in doubt. His leading rival ... Show More

45m 32s

May 2023

Tezcan Gümüş on enduring authoritarianism in Turkey’s democratic history

Tezcan Gümüş on “Turkey's Political Leaders: Authoritarian Tendencies in a Democratic State” (Edinburgh University Press). The book shows how almost all major leaders in Turkey’s multi-party history have demonstrated authoritarian traits, reflecting and fostering the various f ... Show More

47m 2s

May 2024

Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism

Emre Toros on “Electoral Integrity in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press). The book weighs up the country's democratic credentials after over two decades of rule by Erdogan's party, painting an ambivalent picture combining both optimism and pessimism. <a href='https:// ... Show More

28m 32s

Sep 2023

Spyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms

Spyros Sofos on “Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism” (Edinburgh University Press). The book delves into the ambiguities behind the term “the people” from the late Ottoman era to today, and how religious, secularist, left ... Show More

26m 28s

Sep 2023

Why Turkey Is Authoritarian w/ Halil Karaveli [REMASTERED]

This episode is a fully-remastered edition of a previous episode we released, where we brought on Halil Karaveli to talk about Why Turkey Is Authoritarian. This discussion was our second interview ever on the show, and while the format of the show has slightly changed over the ... Show More

1h 52m

Oct 2023

Derrière la République d'Erdogan, l'ombre d'Atatürk

Une émission réalisée et enregistrée au cœur d’Istanbul, en partenariat avec l’Institut du Bosphore. La Turquie célébrera, dimanche 29 octobre 2023, les cent ans de la République. Anniversaire incontournable s’il en est, celui de la naissance du pays dans ses frontières actuelles ... Show More

48m 30s

Soner Çaǧaptay, "A Sultan in Autumn: Erd...