Burcu Karahan's recently published collection of short stories features this translator's note. Following the translator's note is "A Lesson of Love," a story Karahan translates in the collection and mentions in her translator's note. 

I’ve spent a good part of the last two years transcribing and...

Utsavi Singh (Digital Public Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, '23–'25) interviews Morgan Sinan Tufan (Next Generation Scholar, Stanford Humanities Center, '24–'25) and Kioumars Ghereghlou (Curator of Middle East Collections, Stanford University Libraries) to discuss their work on the Jon Mandaville Collection at Stanford University Libraries.

Chris Gratien examines how the yayla was integral to the local ecology of Ottoman Cilicia as a shared temporal and spatial dimension of culture. This local ecology, in turn, shaped society, politics, and the historical evolution of the region up until the Tanzimat reforms.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. That still sums up the way we view culture today. We undervalue its place in the world, always elevating the importance of the economy as a factor in social change. Culture, to change the metaphor, still plays second fiddle, following the lead of the economic conductor.