Circassian Elegance: How Migration Shaped Women’s Fashion in Ottoman Istanbul
Dedicated to my paternal grandmother Nezihe Doğrusöz and all the Circassion women who found a…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 23/08/2026
Dedicated to my paternal grandmother Nezihe Doğrusöz and all the Circassion women who found a…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 23/08/2026
Dedicated to my maternal grandfather Suat Vina My story with Ivan Aivazovsky began long before…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/08/2026
“The Bosphorus not only exceeded my expectations, but rather surprised me by how completely different…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/08/2026
When we think of Vikings, Constantinople is rarely the first city that comes to mind.…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/08/2026
Visual is taken from rexby.com In a city where restaurants appear and disappear with astonishing…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 19/08/2026
Some books survive because kings and sultans preserve them in palaces. Others are copied endlessly,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 19/08/2026
In the heart of Galata, there is a library where you will find no books.…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 18/08/2026
“My lady, I am a slave, a servant bound to you; strike me or kill…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 17/08/2026
To step into the clock room of the Topkapı Palace is to witness a quiet,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 17/08/2026
Today, a spoon is one of the most anonymous objects in a household: inexpensive, interchangeable,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 17/08/2026
For centuries, European diplomats visiting Topkapı Palace returned to their home capitals with reports of…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 16/08/2026
Cats are not impure; they are among those who go around among you.’ attributed to…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 16/08/2026
“I, Nebuchadnezzar, laid the foundation of the gates down to the groundwater level, and had…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 09/08/2026
A dead youth lies here, a nineteen-year-old lad, under the sun by day, under the…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 01/08/2026
We can emulate Orpheus and sing on in the face of horror, and not stop…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 31/07/2026