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Ottoman Empire
Üsküdar was the Plymouth Rock of the Turkish Straits…
Image gallery:
The Maps of Piri Reis
‘Istanbul was like a gingerbread house’
‘Today, to sail along the Danube is to see the new face of Europe, old as it is.’
Deutschland über Allah
Joseph O’Neill on de Bellaigue’s Turkish odyssey
(Read the NYRB article ‘Turkey’s Hidden Past’ by Christopher de Bellaigue)
Podcast:
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
Virtual gallery:
LUMINOUS
Poems:
‘Lunar New Year’, ‘Amygdala hijack’ and ‘Pre-partum’ by Tan Tzy Jiun
Book excerpt:
‘The Mites’ by Sarah Al-Jack
Poems:
‘False Dawn’ and ‘The Prize: A Double Sonnet’ by Satya Dash
Book excerpt:
‘Nothing but the Music’ by Thulani Davis
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