Burcu Karahan
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📯📯 One Thousand and One Kisses 💋 is now out from @tra-attached.bsky.social!
💫 Heartfelt thanks to @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social for 🎨 cover art; and Louis de Bernieres, @ratherserious.bsky.social, and @whitejenny.bsky.social for their generous support.
Order here 👉 translationattached.com/available-now/
burcukarahan.bsky.social
📯📯 One Thousand and One Kisses 💋 is now out from @tra-attached.bsky.social!
💫 Heartfelt thanks to @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social for 🎨 cover art; and Louis de Bernieres, @ratherserious.bsky.social, and @whitejenny.bsky.social for their generous support.
Order here 👉 translationattached.com/available-now/
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mesa1966.bsky.social
#Employment The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for the position(s) of postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) or associate research scholar (ARS).

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Middle East Studies Association
The Center invites applications for the position(s) of postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) or associate research scholar (ARS) in the relevant fields of Iran and the Persian Gulf in the 19th - 21st...
mesana.org
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stanfordpress.bsky.social
With Empire of Manners, James Grehan offers a panoramic view of manners and sociability across the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, from the Balkans to the Middle East to North Africa. #ReadUP

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Book cover of Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century by James Grehan
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tra-attached.bsky.social
🎙️ Burcu Karahan @burcukarahan.bsky.social chats with Suzie Ferguson of Ottoman History Podcast about how erotic fiction transformed from manuscript to print culture in the Ottoman Empire👀 Plus, the story behind One Thousand and One Kisses - out soon! 📖 #1001kisses 💋 open.spotify.com/episode/4GV7...
Freedom and Desire in Late Ottoman Erotica
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burcukarahan.bsky.social
While translating "One Thousand and One Kisses," I found myself deep in euphemisms and literary sleuthing—merkez مركز, it turns out, is much more than just “center.” #seviyorummerkez
tra-attached.bsky.social
Step inside the translator’s mind 👉 Don't miss @burcukarahan.bsky.social Burcu Karahan’s Translator’s Note for One Thousand and One Kisses. The book is coming soon with a stellar cover! #translatorsnote #turkishliteratureintranslation 💋

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Merkez: l’Origine du mot
Burcu Karahan, translator of One Thousand and One Kisses, reflects on the nuances of translating the words kedi and merkez into English.
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burcukarahan.bsky.social
📣📣📣 Dear Ottomanists: I am co-organizing a seminar for ACLA 2026, "Tales from the Periphery: Narrating the Enslaved, the Outcast, and the Marginalized in the Ottoman Empire."
Please see the abstract, consider submitting a proposal, and share the call.
www.acla.org/seminar/58d1...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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burcukarahan.bsky.social
Kî ne em? Kurdish Literature and Its Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference @ Stanford. For more info: events.stanford.edu/event/ki-ne-...
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penamerica.bsky.social
A growing list of words and materials are being scrubbed from government websites and documents in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to DEI, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics.

More: pen.org/banned-words...
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T24 @t24.com.tr · Mar 24
Eğitim-Sen üyesi akademisyenlerden, akademik boykot kararı alan öğrencilere destek için iş bırakma kararı
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karabekir.bsky.social
İmamoğlu to be arrested after a 4-day detention amid mass protests and economic meltdown. Power-hungry Erdogan pushes Turkey into a dark new era where any pretence of democracy and rule of law has dissolved into thin air. What a tragedy for a country that could've had a very different trajectory.
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politico.eu
Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
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gonultol.bsky.social
In a blatant yet predictable move, Ekrem Imamoglu—Istanbul’s mayor and Erdogan’s main rival—has had his diploma voided. Turkish law requires the president to be a university graduate, making this a clear example of how skewed the electoral playing field is under Erdogan’s rule.
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Taha Toros Arşivi hala Marmara Üniversitesi'nde mi ve erişime açık mı?
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Çok teşekkür ederim🙏🏼
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Şu resmin kaynağını, orijinalininin nerede olduğunu bilen var mı? (Cenap Şahabettin, Abdülhak Hamit, Mithat Cemal Kuntay, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ve oğlu, Samipaşazade Sezai)
burcukarahan.bsky.social
🥁🥁🥁 The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and The Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford Global Studies Division invite qualified candidates to apply for the inaugural Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship. 👇👇👇
Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies
islamicstudies.stanford.edu
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
PEN International has launched an archive to commemorate the lives & work of the many writers so far killed in Gaza.
It is a detailed honouring of each person.
“I am Nour El Din Adnan Hajjaj, a Palestinian writer, I am 27 years old & I have many dreams...”
www.pen-international.org/war-on-write...
War on Writers: A look at writers killed in Gaza — PEN International
www.pen-international.org
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Fatma Aliye finally in English!
tra-attached.bsky.social
✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ We're overjoyed to share the cover of our upcoming title, Scenes of Life by Fatma Aliye (1862–1936). Written as a series of letters between five women and published in 1897-1898, this epistolatory novel explores love and marriage in the late Ottoman Empire.
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Fatma Aliye finally in English!
tra-attached.bsky.social
Our publication will include the original Ottoman Turkish text, transliteration into the Latin alphabet, modern Turkish, and our English translation. #turkishliterature #literatureintranslation #fatmaaliye #indiepublishing #womeninliterature #ottomanliterature
burcukarahan.bsky.social
hal-i tercüman: where your every tab is a dictionary
#redhouse #lexiqamus #kubbealtı @merriam-webster.com #oxfordenglish
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Ay hiç o konuya girmiyorum bile, kendi 15liğim darlıyor yeterince beni
burcukarahan.bsky.social
I ordered from the UT press website, they have a sale right now.
burcukarahan.bsky.social
Sakiniyet çok iyiymiş, niyet ettim eyledim sakinliğe gibi, kullanırım ben bunu