PODCAST – Episode 61: Zionism and Race

Laura Almagor talks to Ozan Ozavci about how revisiting a supposed "Founding Father of Zionism" might open new avenues into alternative pasts and futures for Israel-Palestine.

Nile Green walks Jonathan Conlin through Ikbal and Idries Shah's unstable stable of aliases and identities.

Artemis Papatheodorou talks with Enno Maessen about the stories of Ottoman Greek refugees and their attachments to antiquities in the late Ottoman world.

Emre Erol talks to Enno Maessen about Mushir Husein Kidwai, a prominent intellectual who pleaded for Muslims of the world to unite.

Mert Cangönül discusses his ongoing research project on the Schengen visa regime with Enno Maessen.

Amir Moghadam talks to Jonathan Conlin about his ongoing research into Iranian parliamentary discourse, which is shedding new light on the transition from Qajar to Pahlavi regimes.

Sara Brinegar introduces Ozan Ozavci to her new book on the politics of oil in the post-WWI south Caucasus.

Ozan Ozavci and Demetra Tzanaki discuss eugenics, a pseudo-science that informed how the Greek state treated displaced fellow Greeks a century ago, and that lies behind our concept of meritocracy.

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his new book on North Caucasian Muslim refugees, and reveals how the Ottoman Empire developed a refugee regime half a century before the League of Nations.

Fioana Adamson and Kelly Greenhill speak about their new project on organised forced migration, past and present