Looking for the Traces of a Vanished School on Taşmektep Street
Nomina tantum manent’ (‘only names remain’) Latin proverb There are streets that accompany us throughout…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 15/07/2026
Nomina tantum manent’ (‘only names remain’) Latin proverb There are streets that accompany us throughout…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 15/07/2026
Dedicated to my father Mustafa Feridun Doğrusöz and all the gentlemen and ladies of his…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 12/07/2026
Born in 1914, Selahattin Giz witnessed one of the most dramatic periods in Turkish history.…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 07/07/2026
On a summer day in 1933, as the newly founded Turkish Republic sought to reinvent…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 05/07/2026
In Ottoman Istanbul, scent was not a luxury added to life. It was part of…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 05/07/2026
Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu There are designers who create beautiful spaces, and there are designers who create…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 04/07/2026
Deniz Göktaş on stage at Harbiye Open-Air Theater Istanbul has never been a quiet city.…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 03/07/2026
Georges Dumézil (1891-1986) in his later years In 1925, a young French scholar arrived in…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 28/06/2026
“Thutmose III, sovereign of Upper and Lower Egypt of the Eighteenth Dynasty, having offered his…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 28/06/2026
Ottoman tent from 17th century in Krakow, Poland Walk through the great museums of Vienna,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 27/06/2026
Few pieces of Baroque music are as deeply connected to the Ottoman imagination as Jean-Baptiste…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 27/06/2026
Benito Mussolini never visited Istanbul. He never crossed the Galata Bridge, gazed upon the Bosphorus…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 27/06/2026
Fehime Sultan in the Harem Among the many paradoxes of the final Ottoman century, few…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 27/06/2026
Istanbul did not slowly become modern; it was forced to carry several centuries of urban…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 26/06/2026
When news of the audacious 2025 heist at the Louvre Museum broke, the world focused…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/06/2026