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Burcu Karahan

@burcukarahan

Ottoman & modern Turkish literature | literary translation | @stanford Complit

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Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group celebrates its 6th year and 29th event with a new theme:”Why Translate Late-Ottoman Lit?”In Jan, İpek Şahinler will host @burcukarahan.bsky.social (Stanford) to discuss her recent translation 1001 Kisses.Register: literaturcapodcast.com/turkish-lite...

13.01.2026 20:31 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Bin Bir Buse serisi İngilizceye çevrildi - Burcu Karahan: "Osmanlı kadınları, bu metinlerde kadına verilen özgürlük gücünü memnuniyetle karşıladı" - Medyascope 1923-24'te İstanbul'da isimsiz olarak yayımlanan "Bin Bir Buse" serisi Burcu Karahan tarafından İngilizceye çevrildi. Karahan kitabı anlattı.

Burcu Karahan: “Bin Bir Buse serisindeki öyküler kadınlara sıradan toplumsal kısıtlamaların ötesinde, önceki dönem edebiyatlarında ve hatta sonrasında olmayan, bir var olma alanı sunuyor”

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17.10.2025 16:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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/

06.10.2025 16:23 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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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...

#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).

mesana.org/resources-an...

02.10.2025 14:23 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover of Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century by James Grehan

Book cover of Empire of Manners: Ottoman Sociability and War-Making in the Long Eighteenth Century by James Grehan

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

www.sup.org/books/mi...

09.09.2025 15:01 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Freedom and Desire in Late Ottoman Erotica

🎙️ 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...

09.09.2025 18:59 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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

28.08.2025 15:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

📣📣📣 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...

13.08.2025 01:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kî ne em? Kurdish Literature and Its Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference @ Stanford. For more info: events.stanford.edu/event/ki-ne-...

21.04.2025 17:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

04.04.2025 17:34 👍 225 🔁 168 💬 15 📌 34
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Eğitim-Sen üyesi akademisyenlerden, akademik boykot kararı alan öğrencilere destek için iş bırakma kararı
t24.com.tr/haber/egitim...

24.03.2025 18:30 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2

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.

23.03.2025 00:52 👍 34 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2
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Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.

Elon Musk's social media platform X has suspended several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey amid widespread civil unrest in the country.

22.03.2025 09:18 👍 1732 🔁 998 💬 155 📌 357
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Gönül Tol on X: "Turkey’s media watchdog RTÜK is pressuring TV channels to stop live broadcasts." / X Turkey’s media watchdog RTÜK is pressuring TV channels to stop live broadcasts.

Turkey’s media watchdog RTÜK is pressuring TV channels to stop live broadcasts. x.com/gonultol/sta...

22.03.2025 22:22 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

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.

18.03.2025 16:11 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Taha Toros Arşivi hala Marmara Üniversitesi'nde mi ve erişime açık mı?

23.02.2025 22:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Çok teşekkür ederim🙏🏼

13.02.2025 22:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Şu resmin kaynağını, orijinalininin nerede olduğunu bilen var mı? (Cenap Şahabettin, Abdülhak Hamit, Mithat Cemal Kuntay, Mehmet Akif Ersoy ve oğlu, Samipaşazade Sezai)

13.02.2025 21:47 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Palestinian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship | Islamic Studies

🥁🥁🥁 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. 👇👇👇

17.12.2024 07:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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War on Writers: A look at writers killed in Gaza — PEN International

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...

06.12.2024 20:33 👍 162 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 6

Fatma Aliye finally in English!

08.12.2024 20:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fatma Aliye finally in English!

08.12.2024 19:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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hal-i tercüman: where your every tab is a dictionary
#redhouse #lexiqamus #kubbealtı @merriam-webster.com #oxfordenglish

04.12.2024 23:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ay hiç o konuya girmiyorum bile, kendi 15liğim darlıyor yeterince beni

24.11.2024 05:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I ordered from the UT press website, they have a sale right now.

24.11.2024 05:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sakiniyet çok iyiymiş, niyet ettim eyledim sakinliğe gibi, kullanırım ben bunu

24.11.2024 04:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Seviyye Talip”, the complicated and twisted tale of Ottoman modernization, is now available in English, translated by Iclal Vanwesenbeeck! Seviyye could arguably be one of the most fascinating and rebellious women in late Ottoman literature. Can’t wait to teach this one!

24.11.2024 03:45 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2