Jale İnan: The Woman Who Brought Herakles Home
Jale İnan with another female colleague There are lives that seem to grow naturally out…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/09/2026
Jale İnan with another female colleague There are lives that seem to grow naturally out…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/09/2026
Same-sex love is not new to Istanbul. Neither is the attempt to control it. Long…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 15/09/2026
Burial of victims of the Black Death at Tournai, 1349. In 1347, death arrived in…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 11/09/2026
Pera Ensemble Long before opera arrived in Istanbul, music was already travelling between East and…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 11/09/2026
Long before the grand theatres of nineteenth-century Pera, before the Naum Theatre, and almost two…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 11/09/2026
For one weekend in September, some of Istanbul’s normally inaccessible historic buildings open their doors…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 11/09/2026
“The city, sleeping pensively, is now but a memory,As children and soldiers fade in albums.”…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/09/2026
The Blood Libel, an early 18th-century painting by Karol de Prévot in Sandomierz Cathedral, Poland,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 08/09/2026
Italian painter Fausto Zonaro (1854–1929) painted the Sinezens in Üsküdar, around the Iranian Cemetery and…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 08/09/2026
At the turn of the twentieth century, Istanbul attracted painters, writers, diplomats and travellers from…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 07/09/2026
I learned today that Master Kirkor Merdinyan passed away on August 3. He will be…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 05/09/2026
“I never beheld a work of nature or art which yielded an impression like the…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 05/09/2026
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam holds one of the world’s most remarkable visual records of Ottoman…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 03/09/2026
il faut cultiver notre jardin.’ Voltaire I first encountered Voltaire long before I read him.…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 31/08/2026
Tucked away in the Kurtuluş neighborhood—historically known as Tatavla—stands a quiet, unassuming shop that preserves…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 30/08/2026