I had the great opportunity to meet Asst. Prof. Dr. Luca Orlandi of Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture at the Bibliotheka seminar last May, where he gave an insightful lecture titled ‘the Italian Levantine heritage in Istanbul’....
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A treat at Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamam- a hamam by Sinan the architect.My reading list for summer: Again about Istanbul... Zeynep Çelik's The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the 19th Century.My Nişantaşı Walk: it is sooo hot....
We Istanbullites do not know much about the history of our home city. I am ashamed to say history is so much in the air that we are one of the spoilt kids of the Mediterranean. The excavations of the past decade in the historical peninsula have made...
When I first came across The Women's Museum Istanbul online last year, I got so excited that I set the date to visit the museum the next day! Unfortunately, it turned out that it did not have a venue yet. Never mind in a world, where established concepts...
"Farewell to Istanbul" by the great Turkish cartoonist, Semih Balcıoğlu (1928-2006) is a collection of cartoons that bids farewell to an Istanbul that is long gone. As a child, I remember following him in one of the mainstream newspapers. The older...
Writing the monograph of a city is never an easy task, I am sure. even more difficult if the city is Istanbul, once known as Byzantium or Constantinople. The historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore takes on such a challenge trying to squeeze so much into...
A depiction of a man with acanthus beard from the mosaic museum, one of the most underrated places in the city. The only thing that remains from the 6th century Great Palace of the Byzantine Constantinople is the floor tiles of a peristyle courtyard....