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About Reuben Silverman
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm University’s Institute for Turkish Studies, where I focus on politics and culture in Turkey and the Middle East. I received my PhD in Middle Eastern History from UC San Diego in 2022. My dissertation work--and next book--focuses on the process of democratization in Turkey during the 1950s and the ways in which it was shaped by center-right populism and the larger Cold War context. Beyond my doctoral work, I write regularly on historical and contemporary issues in Turkey. My work has been collected in three books, Turkey's Ever Present Past: Stories From Turkish Republican History (2015); Politics in Turkey: Parties, Politicians and the Struggle for Power (2018); and Borderline Personalities: Lives at the Political, Social and Geographic Edges of Modern Turkey (2021).Reuben Silverman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm University’s Institute for Turkish Studies.
NBN Episodes hosted by Reuben:
September 28, 2024
Against the Liberal Order
In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introd…
July 28, 2024
Talking Back to the West
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player…
April 23, 2024
Empire of Refugees
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees…
March 8, 2024
To the City
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country’…
February 5, 2024
A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey
The Republic of Turkey was founded a hundred years ago on 29 October 1923. Turkey holds a unique position between Europe and the Middle East. It conti…
December 24, 2023
Ottoman Passports
In Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 (Syracuse University Press, 2023), İlkay Yılmaz reconsiders the history of two polit…
December 23, 2023
Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey
While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and North America, the example of late-industrializing nat…
October 12, 2023
Laughing Matters
Valentina Marcella's Laughing Matters: Graphic Satire Reckoning with the 1980 Coup in Turkey (Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino 2022) focuses on th…
September 27, 2023
Placing Islam
For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried…
September 17, 2023
A Sephardi Turkish Patriot
In A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (Hamilton Books, 2023), Anthony Gad Bigio expl…
July 22, 2023
Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950
The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of…
June 29, 2023
Peerless Among Princes
Süleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. In Peerless Among Princes: The Lif…
June 3, 2023
Red Star over the Black Sea
Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international…
May 28, 2023
Revolutions Aesthetic
The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideol…
May 5, 2023
Erdoğan's War
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's pugnacious president, is now the country's longest-serving leader. On his way to the top, he has fought many wars. This…
March 15, 2023
Teachers as State-Builders
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controll…
March 5, 2023
A History of Herat
Shivan Mahendrarajah's A History of Herat: From Chingiz Khan to Tamerlane (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) follows the history of the city, from its…
January 23, 2023
Losing Istanbul
Mostafa Minawi's Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire (Stanford University Press, 2022) offers an intimate history of empi…
October 4, 2022
Street-Level Governing
Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. They are public…
August 12, 2022
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey
The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns a…
June 9, 2022
Argentina in the Global Middle East
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, …
March 8, 2022
Metrics of Modernity
Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey (University of California Press, 2022) is a vivid portrait of the art world of 1950s Turke…
December 16, 2021
As Night Falls
In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. Avner Wishnitzer's A…
December 9, 2021
Contesting the Iranian Revolution
Most observers of Iran viewed the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', with many Iranians and those in neighboring Arab countries agreein…