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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين)
@nitemkreb.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in History at SFU. Ottoman Empire, 18th-19th c. Archery; Esotericism; Material Culture; Religion. Leiden (MA'20) & Sciences Po (BA'18). (Şevketlü/Mehābetlü/Kerāmetlü)
https://www.sfu.ca/history/graduate/grad-students/phd/berk-metin.html
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S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social · Mar 6
Check out our new publication (it’s open access):

Rik J. Janssen and S. Berk Metin, “19th Century Ottoman Archery Records Among Leiden Miscellanea,” 𝐾𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓: 𝐸-𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜-𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 3, no. 1 (Winter 2025): 40–53.

journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...
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hasan07ant.bsky.social
10 yıl önce Antalya Rotary Derneği'nde vermiş olduğum bir dinleti sayesinde tanıştığım Prof. Dr. Remzi Sanver bu toprakların yetiştirdiği en önemli bilim insanlarından birisidir. Çok önemli çalışmalar yapmış ve binlerce öğrenci yetiştirmiştir. Takdir edileceğine yapılanlara bakınca çok üzülüyorum.
October 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
Officially A.B.D.! 🎉
October 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
We had a very successful panel at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference! Many thanks to my friends & colleagues Furkan Sarılıcan and Seán Silvia.
September 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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bemutlu.bsky.social
Our new research paper with Nathan Brown is out from @carnegieendowment.org !

#polisky #menasky @carnegiemec.bsky.social

carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Official Islam in the Arab States of the Gulf: Local Establishments in a Regional and Global Context
The story of religious institutions and the state in the Gulf exemplifies four main points: the “institutional isomorphism” in the region, the place of religion in the nation- and state-building proce...
carnegieendowment.org
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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nitemkreb.bsky.social
Check out our new publication (it’s open access):

Rik J. Janssen and S. Berk Metin, “19th Century Ottoman Archery Records Among Leiden Miscellanea,” 𝐾𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓: 𝐸-𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜-𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 3, no. 1 (Winter 2025): 40–53.

journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...
March 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
Her: so what are your interests?

Me:
September 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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libyaliberty.bsky.social
Leave the world a little better than you found it. At least in your footprint. That’s the goal.
September 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Today is a good day to think about what you want to be remembered for. Maybe you needed some courage. Find it today.
September 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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danaelkurd.bsky.social
If you approach a brown, Arab, Palestinian, and/or Muslim person and demand they confirm they aren't antisemitic and won't harm Jews - you are a racist.
June 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
UK orthopedic surgeon on return from Gaza about what he experienced.

I can’t even repeat the second part of the quote, it’s too awful.

www.npr.org/2025/06/05/n...
None of them were injured alone. Particularly the ones who were injured in bomb blasts — and it seems there's been a pattern of individual families being attacked. There was a young man aged 11, who was one of the ones who was wheeled into the operating theater on a blood-soaked trolley at the end of our ordinary list. He was one of a family of two adults and ten children. He was the only surviving child. So that is the context of each of the people on whom we operate." "There was another wee boy who particularly sticks in my memory. His name was Jacob. He was 7. The blast had broken both legs above and below both knees and had flayed the skin and flesh from his legs. Now, we were able to care for his legs while I was writing the operation note and he was in recovery. It was heartbreaking to hear this poor little seven-year-old boy, this little scrap of humanity, calling for his mother — who was dead. Those stories are not in isolation."
June 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Some light summer reading 🤪
June 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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phildorroll.bsky.social
Recent release that looks very interesting:
Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century
Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century
edinburghuniversitypress.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
A record stone supposedly belonging to the mythic archery champion Tozkoparan (‘Dust-Breaker’) in Istanbul:

Ṣāḥib’ül-Menzil fī'l-Meydān /
Elleḏī ismuhu Tozḳoparan
May 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
Just saw Paths of Glory by Kubrick. Wow.
April 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Mahmud II’s calligraphy practice (meşk) and his teacher’s note:

Māşā-Allāh āferīn efendim
April 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
Excited to take part in TIOL-3, albeit remotely, to present our co-authored paper "Blurring the Boundary between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Foreign Travellers’ Accounts on Everyday Religiosity in 19th Century Istanbul" with @eosayin.bsky.social www.travellersinottomanlands.com/next-seminar
April 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
Check out our new publication (it’s open access):

Rik J. Janssen and S. Berk Metin, “19th Century Ottoman Archery Records Among Leiden Miscellanea,” 𝐾𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓: 𝐸-𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝑇𝑢𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜-𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 3, no. 1 (Winter 2025): 40–53.

journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/ke...
March 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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jdryan08.bsky.social
I am also struck by the prevaricating opening sentence. “Any intentional destruction” — as if Gazans might have blown their own institutions up, as if the IDF’s demolition teams and sophisticated targeting systems did this all by mistake.
abshlimon.bsky.social Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social · Jan 17
Faced with an overwhelming vote by its members to condemn scholasticide in Palestine, the American Historical Association council has vetoed the resolution. Entirely in character for an organization that’s long been useless, but still galling
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the "Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza," however, to contravene the Association's Constitution and Bylaws, because it lies outside the scope of the Association's mission and purpose, defined in its Constitution as "the promotion of historical studies through the encouragement of research, teaching, and publication; the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts; the dissemination of historical records and information; the broadening of historical knowledge among the general public; and the pursuit of kindred activities in the interest of history." After careful deliberation and consideration, the AHA Council vetoes the resolution. The AHA Council appreciates the work of Historians for Peace and Democracy and recognizes the diversity of perspectives, concerns, and commitments among AHA members.
January 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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As a reminder, the AHA council approved the following, about a month after the invasion of Ukraine.

www.historians.org/news/aha-sta...
January 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
nitemkreb.bsky.social
BOUN History+’ın davetlisi olarak 5 Aralık’ta Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’de olacağım. İlgilenenleri beklerim.
November 27, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Many thanks to Mustafa Akyol for citing my research in his new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. Congratulations on publishing this important work which aims to build bridges in these divisive times.
September 29, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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Ryan Zohar and Berk Metin, “The Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection: Censorship, Contentious Politics, and the Cold War Stage.” MELA Notes 96, vol. 1 (2023-2024): 1-26. doi.org/10.5070/M7.3...
The Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection: Censorship, Contentious Politics, and the Cold War Stage
Author(s): Zohar, Ryan; Metin, Berk | Abstract: Turkish political theater of the 1960s-1970s was a genre that galvanized both its intellectual proponents and drew the ire of state authoritie...
doi.org
September 19, 2024 at 8:35 AM