Check out my interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @selimkoru.bsky.social about his new book New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country (@ibtauris.bsky.social 2025): newbooksnetwork.com/new-turkey-a...

Read my new post about Peyami Safa (as well as a translation of one of his Cingöz Recai stories). His writing--often disturbingly--reflected the philosophical, political, and social debates of his times: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/v...

Check out my interview with Nicole Watts (@nfwatts.bsky.social) about her new book, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan (@nyupress.bsky.social, 2025) on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/republic-of-...

Reuben Silverman - The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60 October 2025, Cambridge UP

Check out my interview with Emine Ö. Evered about her new book Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity ( University of Texas Press, 2024): newbooksnetwork.com/prohibition-... (and the book is available here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/)

Read my paper about Turkey-Qatar relations. I argue shared world-views between the AKP and Qatari rulers only partially explain the relationship; as important are changes in the economies of both countries which give their leaders something to offer one another: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out my new piece on Yasar Kemal and the people who helped make him into the internationally famous author he became. It includes a translation of his journalism about the bandit Cakircali Mehmet Efe: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/t...

Until I post something new, here's what I've been working on lately :) reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/e...