The story of the rise of modern Arabic literature begins in the 19th century when the encounter with Europe instigates a far-reaching process of translation, adaptation, and transmutation against the backdrop of a wider move towards state-modernization on the one hand and incipient colonization on the other. In the throes of these sweeping changes, modern […]

Dr Ambra D’Antone (The Warburg Institute, London) “Karagöz is ours”: İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s Cultural Revivalism and the Long Turkish Modernity Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 19:00 (Turkish time, GMT + 3) By Kıvanç from İstanbul, Turkey – İstanbul Toys Museum ( Karagöz And Hacivat), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4092519 In 1939, the Turkish scholar and art critic […]