Tag: 19th-20th century
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A Debt of Gratitude: The Kaiserswerth Deaconesses and Their Forgotten Graves in Istanbul’s Feriköy Protestant Cemetery
Author: Alexandra Comus “The German hospital suffered the most. The broad Hamalbaşı Street was so full of smoke that it was impossible to see ten steps ahead. The new hospital, which only stood for a year, was burned to the ground, and the tender-hearted sisters who served here lacked enough hands to help. The fatally…
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A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire – Author: Sebastian Willert
A German-Ottoman Scramble for Objects in ar-Raqqa. Antiquities Trade, Archaeological Looting and Museum Rivalry in the Late Ottoman Empire Author: Sebastian Willert 23 April 2021 “Since I arrived at Halep [Aleppo] I have been seeing valuable antiquities in many houses. Telegrams I receive from Raqqa indicate that antiquity smuggling is pervasive.”[1] In his telegram of…
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Muslim Woman: The Translatability of a Patriarchal Order – Authors: A. Ebru Akcasu and Maha Abdelmegeed
Muslim Woman: The Translatability of a Patriarchal Order Authors: A. Ebru Akcasu and Maha Abdelmegeed 9 October 2020 The research carried out over the course of June 2018 – January 2019, conducted with one of us being based at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, and the other at the American University in Beirut, contributed to an article…