Saving Turkey's Children

12 June 2020

Exiled by Hitler, Albert Eckstein turned his medical expertise to saving Turkey's poorest children from the curse of infant mortality.

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Engraving of threshing near Ogosta, Bulgaria, second half of the 19th century

Beyond the harem: ways to be a woman during the Ottoman Empire

12 August 2016

A new volume of essays looks afresh at women’s lives during the 600 years of the Ottoman empire. ̽»¨Ö±²¥book challenges the stereotypes of female lives confined to the harem and hamam – and reveals how women were surprisingly visible in public spaces.

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