Britanahay Personalities
An exploration of the different people connected to display items in the Britanahay Exhibition at the British Library and their broader life stories.
Britanahay Opening Celebration
The opening speech for Britanahay, a display celebrating Armenian-British heritage at the British Library.
Britanahay Բրիտանահայ: Armeno-British History at the British Library
From 27 September 2025 until 22 February 2026, the British Library’s Sir John S. Ritblatt Treasures Gallery offers visitors a unique view onto Armenian-British history. Entitled Britanahay Բրիտանահայ: Armenian and British, the four-case display brings together items from the British Library collection that highlight Armeno-British communities and interactions. What’s more, it’s an interactive experience with…
Poetic Emancipation: The Political Verse of Nûredîn Zaza
In this blog post, I explore the history of a small booklet of Kurdish poetry about the struggle of the PDK for Kurdish self-determination, tracking out its contributors and likely place of production.
A Hopeless Venture: The Story of Huïs
In this article, I explore the history and content of Huïs, a newspaper published in Armenian in the Latin alphabet in Varna, Bulgaria in the 1880s.
Aboard Aeschylus
A reflection on reading ‘abd al-Rahmān Munīf’s Sharq al-Mutawassit around the fall of the Assad regime.
Anatolian Memories
A look at memories and memorializations of multiethnic Anatolia through a variety of memoirs and fiction works.
Promising Freedom: Cold War Albanian Papers in Istanbul
In this blog post, I explore the exile Albanian newspaper Besa, appearing in Istanbul from 1953 to the 1970s, and its relationship to broader Albanian cultural production in the country.
Alev ve Kül: From the Ashes of a Collection
A look at an obscure short Turkish novel published in Bulgaria in 1927, and what we can learn about its author, context, and potential importance for broader literary history.
Flipping pages: an Overview of Kurdish Periodical Culture
An look at the British Library’s Kurdish periodical collection, with a contextualization of the holdings, and copious links to help those interested find research about periodicals in the various Kurdish languages and dialects.
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