May 24, 2017
In this interview with KOMO Radio News Jackson School Director and an expert on modern Turkey, Dr. Reşat Kasaba, talks about the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia and Israel earlier
May 24, 2017
Israel and Middle East expert and Jackson School Professor Joel Migdal discusses U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Israel in this interview with KOMO News radio. Migdal says that the Israelis were overall pleased
May 22, 2017
The Jackson School’s Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy Daniel Bessner talks with KOMO News about President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East.
May 16, 2017
May 1, 2017
Ph.D. candidate and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies research fellow Ozgur Ozkan blogs about his discovery that his hometown in Turkey has had historical ties to Seattle and its Sephardic Jewish community in
April 25, 2017
March 22, 2017
“What does Trump’s neoliberal agenda mean for those whose discontent with globalization gave him the presidency? Nothing good,” write Daniel Bessner, Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Professor of American
February 24, 2017
Professor of History and Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program Devin Naar was interviewed by the Turkish Jewish newspaper Şalom, discussing his latest book on Ottoman Jewish history. The interview, conducted by Ph.D.
February 16, 2017
“What the Trump Administration seems to be implying is that a one-state solution will be primarily a state for Israeli-Jews,” says Prof. Daniel Bessner, an expert on U.S. foreign relations, during a recent
January 4, 2017
What did the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 mean for the Greek community of Istanbul, the empire’s capital city? Join us for a talk by Professor Christine Philiou,