Interviews

• “The Ottomans and the Americas, Part II.” Interview with Adel Aali. Unravelling the Middle East (March 29, 2024).

• “The Ottomans and the Americas, Part I.” Interview with Adel Aali. Unravelling the Middle East (March 28, 2024).

• “The Final Journey.” Interview on part 4 of Jan Janszoon, Pirate of the World. NTR (March 1, 2024).

• “God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Empire and the Modern World.” Interview with Abdul-Rehman Malik. Risala Foundation (December 8, 2023).

• “In Prize-Winning ‘My Egypt Archive,’ Mikhail Charts the Making of History.” Interview with Lisa Prevost. YaleNews (November 29, 2023).

• “My Egypt Archive.” Interview with Ahmed Y. Almaazmi. New Books in Middle Eastern Studies (July 14, 2023).

• “The Ottoman Empire.” Interview with Duncan Gammie. Dunc Tank (April 11, 2023).

• “My Egypt Archive.” Interview with Yale University Press (January 25, 2023).

• “Nature and the Political Ecology of the Ottoman Empire.”  Interview with Yuan Julian Chen.  Duke University Global Asia Initiative (September 26, 2022).

• “İçinde Yaşadığımız Dünya Fazlasıyla Osmanlı.” Interview with Hülya Çelik. Oksijen (May 20, 2022).

• “How the Ottoman Empire was once the Most Powerful State on Earth.” Interview with Alain Guillot. The Alain Guillot Podcast (December 10, 2021).

• “Diversity, Strife, and Toleration in 17th-Century Breukelen.” Conversation with Julie Golia and Eric Platt. New Amsterdam History Center (November 9, 2021).

• “Christopher Columbus, a Crusader?” Interview with Abdul Malik Mujahid. Muslim Network TV (October 29, 2021).

• “Selim the Grim: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World.” Interview with Erlend Hedegart. Well That Aged Well Podcast (October 27, 2021).

• “Reflections on James C. Scott and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University.” Interview with Todd Holmes. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (2021).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with A. Faizur Rahman. Islamic Forum for Moderate Thought (January 31, 2021).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with Yakoob Ahmed. Islamic Circles (January 29, 2021).

• “Meet the Scholar: Snapshots of Intellectual Journeys.” Interview with Sara Omar. Georgetown University Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies (January 25, 2021).

• “Das Osmanische Reich hatte enormen Einfluss auf Europa.” Interview with Martin Lüscher. Finanz und Wirtschaft (December 23, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with Evren Savcı. Yale Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium (December 3, 2020).

• “The Ottoman Empire’s Influence on the Present Day.” Interview with Pamela Paul. New York Times Book Review Podcast (October 16, 2020).

• “Was Columbus’ Voyage to the ‘New World’ Driven by Islamophobia?” Interview with Rebecca Onion. Slate (October 12, 2020).

• “The Ottoman Empire Shaped the World We Recognize Today.” Interview with Randy Dotinga. Christian Science Monitor (October 9, 2020).

• “Sultan Selim and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with Reșat Kasaba. Town Hall Seattle (October 5, 2020).

• “How Sultan Selim’s Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World.” Interview with Andrew Keen. Keen On (October 2, 2020).

• “Παντού σε κίνδυνο η Δημοκρατία.” Interview with Σάκης Ιωαννίδης. Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ (September 22, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with Annette Gordon-Reed. Boston Athenæum (September 21, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow.” Interview with Omar Abdel-Ghaffar and Karim Malak. Borderlines (September 21, 2020).

• “The Ottomans and Sultan Selim I (1517).” Interview with Violet Moller. Travels Through Time (September 8, 2020).

• “NYC Is Full of Echoes From the Ottoman Empire.” Interview with Keith Taillon. Daily Beast (September 5, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with Yale MacMillan Center (September 1, 2020).

• “Selim I, the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with William Armstrong. Turkey Book Talk (September 1, 2020).

• “Yavuz, Bütün Dünyayı Osmanlı Yapmak Arzusundaydı.” Interview with Özlem Kocukeli Ozbay. Derin Tarih (September 2020).

• “The Extraordinary Life of Sultan Selim I.” Interview with Matt Elton. BBC History Extra Podcast (August 28, 2020).

• “In God’s Shadow–What the Hagia Sophia and Erdogan Have in Common with the Ottomans.” Interview with Ian Williams. Foreign Press Association (August 27, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim And His Ottoman Empire.” Interview with Adam Hochschild. Commonwealth Club (August 20, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.” Interview with Craig Cohen. Houston Matters (August 19, 2020).

• “God’s Shadow: Why a 16th-Century Ottoman Sultan Created the Modern World.” Interview with Scott Rank. History Unplugged Podcast (August 18, 2020).

• “The Life and Times of Sultan Selim I.” Interview with Sam Dolbee. Ottoman History Podcast (August 18, 2020).

• “How the Ottomans Shaped the Modern World.” Interview with Andreas Guidi. The Southeast Passage (August 18, 2020).

• “Studying the Past through the Lens of Environmental History.” Interview with Bess Connolly. YaleNews (March 9, 2018).

• “Ottoman Iceland.” Interview with Chris Gratien. Ottoman History Podcast (February 29, 2016).

• “The Animal in Ottoman Egypt.” Interview with Marilyn Wilkes. The MacMillan Report (November 11, 2015).

• “Imperial Consequences of Things.” Interview with Selim Karlıtekin. Borderlines and Jadaliyya (March 10, 2015). Translated into Arabic.

• “Ecology and Empire in Ottoman Egypt.” Interview with Chris Gratien and Emrah Safa Gürkan. Ottoman History Podcast (September 16, 2012).

• “Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History.” Interview with Marilyn Wilkes. The MacMillan Report (May 24, 2012).