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Palaces of Silk
From Issue 49
As the Sadberk Hanım Museum celebrates the art of embroidery, Min Hogg marvels at the motifs of palaces, fruit and flowers, sea and cityscape, wrought stitch by stitch, to adorn every Ottoman home
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Parisian Panache
From Issue 49
The V&A’s Tim Stanley eyes up the Louvre’s astonishing new Islamic offering
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Heavenly Berries
From Issue 49
Mulberries come in an array of hues: black, white, pink, purple; some enticingly sweet, others astringent and healing. As Berrin Torolsan can testify, having grown up with them in her Istanbul garden, all are adored – by man, mallard and pine marten alike. Here she traces the history of this lucious fruit
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The Daredevil Scholar
From Issue 47
With a taste for adventure Indiana Jones would appreciate, the Dutch architectural historian Machiel Kiel has risked life and limb in his mission to expose the annihilation of Ottoman monuments in the Balkans. The art historian Holta Vrioni pays tribute to his work and exploits
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Crimea
From Issue 36
The Crimean War of 1853–56 which ended 150 years ago this year [2006] now seems very remote. Why were Great Britain and France, in alliance with Ottoman Turkey, fighting Russia in the Black Sea? Norman Stone investigates the causes and reviews an exhibition of Crimean War memorabilia at the Sadberk Hanim Museum.
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The Best of Enemies
From Issue 43
Barnaby Rogerson on the undying rivalry of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq and Melchior Lorck
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The Diving Diva
From Issue 48
John Carswell pays tribute to his friend the late Honor Frost (1917–2010), doyenne of underwater archaeology
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Bloodshed in the Balkans
From Issue 47
The First Balkan War, a hundred years ago, is an obscure affair, overshadowed by the First World War that followed. But it ended the Ottoman Empire in Europe and came close to ending Turkey itself. It left almost half a million refugees and three times as many dead.
David Barchard tells the story of a catastrophic conflict -
Muted World
From Issue 48
Maggie Quigley-Pınar describes a book of photographs that evoke the spirit an almost-forgotten modern era: Istanbul in the 1970s
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