America, Turkey, and the Middle East | Suzy Hansen

Ottoman History Podcast

E386 | Turkey is a country that most Americans know little about, and yet the United States has played an extraordinary role in the making of modern Turkey. In this podcast, we explore this disparity of awareness and the role of the US in the history of the Middle East through the lens of an American journalist's slow realization of her own subjectivity and the myriad ways in which the US and Turkey have been intertwined. In this conversation with Suzy Hansen about her award-winning book "Notes on a Foreign Country," we critically examine the formation of journalistic and scholarly expertise, and we discuss reactions of readers and reviewers to Hansen's work. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/hansen.html Suzy Hansen’s first book Notes on a Foreign Country was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. She lives in Istanbul. Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s. CREDITS Episode No. 386 Release Date: 15 October 2018 Recording Location: Cihangir, Istanbul Audio editing by Chris Gratien Music: Intro by Zé Trigueiros Special thanks to our friends Muhtelif Bibliography courtesy of Suzy Hansen available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/10/hansen.html