Today we launch a special series of podcasts about Cyprus, hosted by Alexandria Innes @Online_Andri and TLP convenor Georgios Giannakopoulos, both @CityStGeorges

Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt. https://t.co/lmOgiwVP8P

Last night in Heidelberg @julia_seck and @erverdig introduced our graphic novel, answering the question "can caricature teach history"? This event coincided with the close of a special exhibition on caricature in the Near East, hosted by the University Museum Heidelberg.

In Nea Roda, @ethantchandler of @uoaofficial traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.

Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism (with handy advice for anyone new to producing visualisations).

Our friends at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen are hosting a conference on Memory, Identity and Trauma after the 1923 Lausanne Exchange. CFP (deadline 1 November) here:

William Stroebel on the stories Lausanne tried to silence, that combined scripts and vocabularies in ways that challenged philologists' obsession with linguistic purity. @PrincetonUPress

Congratulations to the team @ELIAMEPgr on the appearance of the book of their June 2023 conference. It includes chapters by several TLP friends, including Konstantinos Tsitselikis and Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, as well as Jon on (surprise!) oil.

"How does the personal relate to the political? Every time Mishaqa changes his world view, he doesn't just surrender, but says we need to use our reason to understand why this is happening." For more from Peter Hill on Mikha’il Mishaqa, have a listen!

"In a male-dominated environment, in 1950s Turkey, it might seem surprising that a woman architect led the body responsible for historic monuments. Being an preservationist today still requires strong nerves." @BarAltan introduces Cahide Temer: https://t.co/MpFTTxScCJ

Salih Yasun @VMI1839 uncovers a story about intimate ties of kinship, enduring yet overlooked:

Long before the State Opera opened Halide Edip Adıvar was among those imagining what Turkish opera might sound like. Ici Vanwesenbeeck @FredoniaU @FredoniaEnglish explains how she conceived of an opera that was neither "alla franca" nor "alla turca".

"Zsa-Zsa Gulbenkian"? Jon's biography of Gulbenkian was name-checked by Wes Anderson, as the inspiration for his new film, "The Phoenician Scheme." https://t.co/XxF4rcvb9C

Jon's article on how Big Oil shaped Lausanne is now out, open access. It challenges state-centred accounts of oil diplomacy, looking at the role of firms we know today as BP and ExxonMobil, as well as of Deutsche Bank and other financial interests

Can Eyüp Çekiç @nevukurumsal revisits liberal internationalist David Davies’ 1919 proposal to establish the League of Nations in Constantinople, making that city the seat of a truly international order – of a kind the League failed to establish in Geneva.

Hadwig Kraeutler on an overlooked 1940 biography that presented sultan Abdülhamid as a key to past, present and future.

"Something that struck home with the students was the rise of the security state. It’s not something that begins with the Nazis, you need to look further back." We spoke to Sam Foster @EastCentreUea about his new approach to teaching the Great War.

"Witnessing students grapple with Middle East politics and challenge assumptions has been truly inspiring and rewarding for me." Barış Çelik explains how he used reflective journals and creative activities at Sheffield.

From studio to alaminüt: we asked Özge Baykan Calafato to talk us through photography's role in developing modern Turkish citizenship, introducing us to the collection she created @Akkasah_NYUAD

Ok, so we are still going to use X alongside BlueSky, and not just for Delvey gifs, in recognition that many of those we hope to reach are still here. Sorry about that, Anna.