Oil and imperialism have played a major role in shaping the modern Middle East. Anand Toprani sits down to discuss the origins of the Turkish Petroleum Company and international speculation on Iraq's oil reserves, beginning with the Ottomans at the and le

Although previous historiography has emphasized the dichotomy of Christianity vs. Islam in the early modern Mediterranean, scholars have increasingly come to appreciate instability and fluidity of these categories embodied by various social characters tha

Much like pirates, corsairs performed raids on coastal populations and interrupted shipping in the Mediterranean. However, unlike pirates, corsairs had the legal backing of sovereign states, who sponsored their activities. In the inaugural episode of the

How can a single, lowly podcast deal with the history of an empire that reigned on three continents over a period of 600 years? In this episode, Emrah Safa Gürkan and Chris Gratien introduce the Ottoman History Podcast, explain its main goals, give a bri