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Podcast 3 Season 2: A Journey to the Summit of Mount Sinai with George Manginis

George Manginis, Academic Director at the Benaki Museum in Athens, sheds light on the importance of the Monastery of St. Catherine in Mount Sinai, Egypt—the bridge between Asia and Africa. George reveals how, contrary to popular belief, the monastery has been an important place of pilgrimage for the three Abrahamic [...]

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Episode 5: Ottoman Complexities with Edhem Eldem

Join historian Edhem Eldem in his reflection on the past, multiculturalism, and Orientalism, focusing on the Ottoman Empire.   Edhem Eldem is a professor at the Department of History of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and has taught as visiting professor at Berkeley, Harvard, at the EHESS, EPHE, and ENS in Paris [...]

2021-12-20T21:09:16+00:00Tags: , , , |
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