Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular
@leylaamzi.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.
If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere. "Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."
The country they never left
Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football.
africasacountry.com
I'm sure everyone's heard about the Bosnian tattoos by now. I explored the story for the @newlinesmag.bsky.social, and if you’re curious about Ottoman Bosnia, Catholic women, and the stakes of turning complicated histories into myths, take a look: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o...
The kids these days say “AI” in the same way that people our age say “bullshit” (“you didn’t do that, that’s AI!”) and I think that’s beautiful
"would you work for a company that got business by threatening to kill the families of potential customers?" gave me the chills bsky.app/profile/chri...
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
Read @leylaamzi.bsky.social to see how all of this applies to the remaking of political order in Bosnia at the interface of empire, with fascinating insights (for me as an anthropologist of debt) into the role of fiscality in the remaking of identity, and how these pasts still shape our presents.
As always the brilliant @leylaamzi.bsky.social, is too generous. Neither the concept of semicivilized nor illumination of how this archaic term is intertwined with dilemmas of attenuated sovereignty, structural indebtedness, and the making of international law is mine-
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular@leylaamzi.bsky.social · 5mo agoGreat to be in such good company thinking together about Julia Elyachar’s concept of the semicivilized @jeelyachar.bsky.social @csshjournal.bsky.social 🗃️
Great to be in such good company thinking together about Julia Elyachar’s concept of the semicivilized @jeelyachar.bsky.social @csshjournal.bsky.social 🗃️
CSSH Journal@csshjournal.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur new In Dialogue explores the relationship between CSSH, the #Ottoman Empire, and comparativism by soliciting reflections on @jeelyachar.bsky.social concept of "the semicivilized" by six CSSH authors. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...
Great to be in such good company thinking together about Julia Elyachar’s concept of the semicivilized @jeelyachar.bsky.social @csshjournal.bsky.social
CSSH Journal@csshjournal.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur new In Dialogue explores the relationship between CSSH, the #Ottoman Empire, and comparativism by soliciting reflections on @jeelyachar.bsky.social concept of "the semicivilized" by six CSSH authors. sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/03...
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe is now available in paperback. Plus take advantage of @stanfordpress.bsky.social Valentine’s Day Sale for a few more days. www.sup.org/books/histor... 🗃️ #menasky #ottoman #bosniaandherzegovina #bosnia #muslims #austriahungary
📣 ✊ We are uniting with labor unions across New Jersey hosting a series of in-person trainings to fight back against the increased presence of ICE in our communities and rising authoritarianism. Join us in your community! Dinner will be provided. RSVP: https://loom.ly/FunAZhk
The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
theguardian.com
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them”
404 Media@404media.co · 6mo agoNEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
Skimming is the new reading ☠️☠️☠️ “Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have … right at the time when we need our kids to be sharper than we are.” Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath Senate testimony youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_...
Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development
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We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026. Call for Papers Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: maowrutgers2026@gmail.com #menasky #skystorians🗃️ #ottoman
You find yourself reading a book about the afterlife of Ottoman Europe, something you never thought about before, just because you read a post on Bluesky. And find it quite interesting as well. Please keep sharing your work!
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular@leylaamzi.bsky.social · 3y agoExcited to announce that you can now preorder my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina scheduled for December 5 release with a @stanfordpress.bsky.social discount code AMZI-ERDOGDULAR20 sup.org/books/title/... #menasky #what's history 🗃️
Hvala Amer Maslo na prikazu moje knjige, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe; Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju Many thanks to Amer Maslo for the review of my book in Contributions to Oriental Philology pof.ois.unsa.ba/index.php/po... @stanfordpress.bsky.social #Balkansky #Mena #Ottoman
this year. 😳
Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org@krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 8mo agoThe horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org
