Authors

Murat C. Yıldız

Murat C. Yıldız is an assistant professor of history at Skidmore College. His current book project examines the making of a shared physical culture among Muslims, Christians, and Jews of late Ottoman Istanbul. His writings have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, the Cairo Papers in Social Science, and AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies as well as in other venues such as The Nation and B|ta’arof Magazine. He is an assistant editor for the Arab Studies Journal and a board member of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.

ARTICLES BY Murat C. Yıldız

  • A Conversation with Sami about the Germany Shooting

    A Conversation with Sami about the Germany Shooting

    The news hit close to home. Sami, Azin, his mom, and I live in Upstate New York, but we have deep ties to Germany. Azin is an Iranian-American, who was born in Tehran and raised in Berlin. We fell in love over a decade ago and decided to build a life together in the US. This wasn’t easy for Azin..