The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

Date: 

Monday, March 18, 2024, 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

A book talk by C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç University, in conversation with William Granara, Research Professor of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

C. Ceyhun Arslan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University in Istanbul. He is currently the Georg Forster Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. He graduated from Williams College, magna cum laude in 2011, and received his Ph.D. from Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard in 2017.

Contact: Liz Flanagan