Uğur Zekeriya Peçe

Island & Empire is out today! Over many years of research & writing, one critical question persisted: how to narrate a story of connectedness through an island? I wrote this book with the hope of stimulating new conversations on colonialism, violence, displacement & protest.

Excited to present Island and Empire today at Northwestern! It's -11 celsius right now but I'm hoping that talking about Crete will make it feel a little warmer.

I’m in Crete

Watching the watchers of the watcher [from the Caspar David Friedrich retrospective at the Met]

Yiğit Akın'ın Birinci Dünya Savaşı'na dair muazzam çalışması artık Türkçede! Bu kitabı ilgiyle ve heyecanla çevirdim. Umarım siz de öyle okursunuz. iletisim.com.tr/kitap/cihan-ha…

Thank you so much to Pınar and Meriç for organizing these two engaging events back-to-back, one on Ottoman borderlands & the other on Ottoman science and technology. An open buffet of history and so much food for thought that I'll stay full for a while.

Thank you to @BrammerAyse, @ugurZp, Mathew Ellis, David Gutman, & Pınar Odabaşı Taşcı for contributing to the brilliant discussion about "Making and Unmaking of the Ottoman Borders" that took place Mar 6' 25. For future events, check out our website: buff.ly/VzW331B

If you are in New York or its borderlands, it would be nice to see you at the roundtable tomorrow!

Once I was in a hurry. Rushing out of a store, I really didn't notice the guy holding the door for me. But he shouted after me, "What do we say? We say thank you!" It was an embarrassing reminder that I happened to live in a high frequency thank you society.

I reviewed Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular's wonderful book "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina" for JOTSA. Link and text below for those interested. academia.edu/127813727/Revi…

Bugün benim doğumgünüm. Islahat fermanının da doğumgünü. O benden 124 sene önce doğmuştu. 1839 yılında ilan edilen Tanzimat fermanıyla karışmasın!

1964 yılında NATO tarafından hükümetin sponsorluğunda yapılan bu kısa tanıtım ve propaganda filmi enteresan bir tarihi döküman. youtube.com/watch?v=p7Re1e…

Island & Empire üzerine kritiği için Melis Cankara'ya teşekkür ederim. "Suya atılan bir taşın etrafında genişleyen [halkalar]." Ya da adadan denize fırlatılan bir taş... dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/ar…

Please join Northwestern MENA on Monday, January 13 at 12:30 pm in University Hall 201, for a book talk by the Winter Quarter 2025 New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies speaker, Uğur Zekeriya Peçe of LeHigh University, co-sponsored by KMTS.

Really looking forward to this. Out this week. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

An important and necessary intervention in Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies. Tebrik ederim Ufukçuğum, kitabın yolu açık olsun!

The best thing about this is that I was on the island with Sam. Happy New Year!