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About Tugrul Mende
Tugrul Mende holds an M.A in Arabic Studies. He is based in Berlin as a project coordinator and independent researcher.
Tugrul Mende holds an M.A in Arabic Studies. He is based in Berlin as a project coordinator and independent researcher.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tugrul:
April 3, 2026
Art Capital
Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising—ex…
March 29, 2026
Cinema before the World
Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers (Fordham UP, 2026) investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing…
March 27, 2026
Worlds of Islam
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougal…
February 28, 2026
Songs for Darkness
Only songs are able to comfort the soul in its darkness—but can anyone hear them? Iman Humaydan’s saga Songs for Darkness (Interlink, 2026) recalls t…
February 27, 2026
Floodlines
In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other’s orbit by the rediscovery of their late father’s lo…
February 26, 2026
The Country Doctor's Tale
In a remote Egyptian village, a young doctor arrives to open a long-abandoned clinic. Recently released from prison for political dissent, he’s been e…
February 21, 2026
I Can Imagine It for Us
I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir (American University in Cairo Press, 2025) is a young woman’s search for connection with her …
January 24, 2026
Political Undesirables
Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford UP, 2025) considers the legal making and unmaking of citizens…
September 24, 2025
A Movement's Promise
Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local radio, television, and uncenso…
September 14, 2025
Dust That Never Settles
Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It …
September 6, 2025
I Want Golden Eyes
This interview is with one of the translators, M. Lynx Qualey. A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in thi…
August 23, 2025
Biography of a Revolution
It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but—as Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human…
August 20, 2025
Saudi Arabia
A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the…
August 19, 2025
Mirages of Reform
In Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World (Cornell UP, 2025), Steve L. Monroe argues that geopolitics and social c…
August 18, 2025
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s. The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fak…
August 4, 2025
Safe Corridor
A bold, unforgettable novel of war, imagination, and survival. Thirteen-year-old Kamiran is fleeing the collapse of Syria when his body begins to hard…
July 16, 2025
Contested City
Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad (Stanford UP, 2025) offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring …
July 8, 2025
The Man of Middling Height
What if our society’s deepest prejudices weren’t about race, gender, or sexuality—but height? In his groundbreaking allegorical novel, acclaimed Jorda…
June 26, 2025
Edward Said
Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete’s temperament, he did not expe…
June 11, 2025
Contemporary Arab Thought
In the last third of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between totalizing doctrines—nationalist, Marxist, and…
June 6, 2025
Crossing
A beautiful and compelling family memoir retracing the love story between Sabrin Hasbun’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her h…
May 14, 2025
Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity
Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity (Edinburgh UP, 2025) examines a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria Cl…
June 29, 2024
An Impossible Friendship
In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of…
June 26, 2024
Prophet of Reason
Today I talked to Peter Hill about his new book Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East (Oneworld Academic, 202…