A Brief Overview of Salim Tamari’s Year of the Locust (By Bedros Torossian)

A Brief Overview of Salim Tamari’s Year of the Locust (By Bedros Torossian)

The book is short consisting of 201 pages and made up of two chapters; one of them titled “The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine,” and the second chapter is called“The Diary of Ihsan Turjman,” which forms the bulk of this book. In the Year

Reviving the Ottoman Language: a Complicated “Religious” Mission (By Joe Hammoura)

Reviving the Ottoman Language: a Complicated “Religious” Mission (By Joe Hammoura)

The ascendency of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in the early 2000’s has ushered in seismic shifts in Turkish economic, political, cultural and ideological tectonic plates. After decades of suppression, marginalization, and sabotage by the Kemalists military elite, the Islamist