Podcasts about Istanbul University

The first trials of those arrested during recent anti-government protests in Turkey are expected to open this Friday. The rallies were sparked by the arrest one month ago of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, seen as a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The student-led protests began on the campus of Istanbul University, where young people say they won't be scared off the streets. FRANCE 24's reporters Andrew Hilliar, Julie Dungelhoeff and Amar al-Hameedawi went to meet them.

Aysegul Sensoy has over 20 years of management experience with  blockchain, emerging technologies, fintech, business development, marketing and sales. She is currently the chair of the Istanbul Blockchain Women Association and CIS Regional Manager of Fuze Finance. She received her bachelor's degree in economics from Istanbul University and her master's degree in marketing communications management from Galatasaray University, as well as getting an executive MBA. She entered the tech sector after working in national and multinational companies as a marketing director, country manager, and many other roles. Aysegul is CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) regional manager of Fuze Finance, an Abu Dhabi-based licensed fintech providing embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. She was the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at XYZ Teknoloji, a blockchain-focused FinTech company based in Istanbul. Aysegul is a chairwoman and founding member of Istanbul Blockchain Woman, a non-profit association dedicated to empowering women in the blockchain ecosystem. The community's purpose is to organise social responsibility projects that will provide women with positive discrimination in terms of technology and blockchain. She is also a co-founder of the SOS Chain initiative, partners with needsmap.coop, which is a blockchain infrastructure fund for disasters and rapid humanitarian crises worldwide. Aysegul is leading the Euthenia community in Turkey, which is a Madrid-based organization aiming to increase C-level gender equity both in the Mediterranean and the MENA countries. She is also the co-founder of FairShare which aims to serve a transparent dApp, allows Muslim faithful to make their Zakat contributions crypto assets. More details on IBW: https://istanbulblockchainwomen.org/homepage/  If you are interested in the Trust4Futures Deep Skills Development course, you can find out more information here: https://trust4futures.com 

This is a very special U.S. elections podcast, in cooperation with the Trocadéro Forum and Mediterranean Sustainability Partners. with experts weighing in from their regions . Here are their biographies : Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney graduated in Political Science from State University College in 1979 and earned her MA (1985) and PhD (1992) in International Relations from Istanbul University. She has held various academic roles at Marmara University and is now affiliated with the National Intelligence Academy. Additionally, she is a security and nuclear energy expert at the Bilge Adamlar Center for Strategic Studies. Prof. Güney has authored numerous works on the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, security studies, and more. Rebel Hanna is the Chairman of Mantra Tourus Group (OOO, Holding), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dexter Capital Risk Management Services L.L.C., BoD member of JHT SARL, entrepreneur with 35+ years of professional experience in the International Business Development, Commercial, Investment, Corporate and Private Banking industry. Dr. Rebel Hanna served as well as Deputy General Manager at a reputable Bank in the UAE, Managing Director of the unique Investment Bank in Lebanon specialized in Securitization; he was managing the First SPVs in the MENA region and the First ABCP Conduit. Prior to that, he occupied different Senior Managerial Positions in the banking industry. In addition to his professional profile, Dr. Rebel Hanna is Lecturer at different reputable universities and speaker in International Conferences. He is as well researcher in Management Sciences, Geopolitics and Geoeconomics. Omar Samad is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center. He is also the founder and president of Silkroad Consulting, LLC. Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Samad was a senior Afghan expert in-residence with the Center for Conflict Management at the US Institute of Peace from January 2012 to January 2013. He also served as Ambassador of Afghanistan to France from 2009 to 2011 and Ambassador to Canada from 2004 to 2009.

It is said a people without a past are a lost soul. And in today's turbulent world, the Muslim ummah has come to realise that we have, in many cases, been taught a version of history that fails to appreciate what the late Shabbir Akhtar called Islam as a imperial faith.Dr Yakoob Ahmed is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He was until recently a lecturer in Islamic history at Istanbul University. He is a regular to this podcast and writes and lectures extensively on Ottoman history. He is the author of a soon to be published title, Does History Matter – history done islamically - the conversation of today.Let me remind all viewers that to help us continue to engage critical thought at this time, Please consider becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslimYou can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/DonateSign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.comPurchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslimFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalaynWebsite Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com0:00 Introduction 2:00 Gaza at the crossed roads 8:08 History as a vocation 11:08 Islam as an Imperial Faith14:40 Historians providing solutions 19:48 What are we doing wrong with history? 25:26 Idealism? 32:50 The Quran and History 37:32 Ibn Khuldun's cyclical theory 43:22 Islam and the production of knowledge 50:40 Fiction and Ertrugul 55:20 Islamic method of history? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I am interviewing Ted Wright! Ted Wright is the founder and Executive Director of EpicArchaeology.org. He has a B.A. in Anthropology & Archaeology from the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University, and a M.A. degree in Christian apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary. For over a decade, Ted has been a speaker on Christian apologetics as well as Biblical Archaeology across North America & internationally. One of the super cool things he is doing is currently working as field assistant, photographer, and videographer for the “Agri Regional Archaeological Survey” in Eastern Turkey, co-sponsored by Andrews University and Istanbul University. In fact, Ted just got back from Mount Ararat (Yes, you heard that right….Noah's Mount Ararat) yesterday. We talk all things Mount Ararat, ancient flood epics, and glacial moraines at 13,000 feet.Support the show

Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a British writer, artist and musician, born in Exeter in 1975. He gained a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in 2003, following which he lived in Istanbul for ten years until 2014, where he gave TEDx talk 'Stammering and Creativity' and also lectured at Istanbul University. He has published several books, poems, albums and paintings, and won a number of awards. He has been published in Westminster Commission reports, T.S. Eliot Foundation, Time Out Istanbul, Louder Than War, and appeared at the Brighton Science Festival, the University of Bristol, BIMM and others. He has interviewed Julie Burchill, Ed Harcourt, Kristin Hersh, Ian Broudie of The Lightning Seeds and Sarah Blackwood of Dubstar, hosted shows by The Members, Mark Morriss of The Bluetones and Eat Static at his Seafish music and arts venue in 2016, and was interviewed for a Sky Arts documentary in the same year. He curated the Chi-Signs, Blakefest and Wildefest mini-festivals between 2015 and 2017, and has been involved with numerous other exhibitions and live events. Here's new book A Delicate Balance Of Reason: https://push.fm/fl/https-www-amazon-co-uk-dp-b0d1p5wqgl My art prints: https://push.fm/fl/https-dashboard-gelato-com-catalogue-print-file-editor-designid-c4dcd10a-50eb-40f1-8f77-c21f550af85c-productuid-canvas-700x1000-mm-28x40-inch-canvas-wood-fsc-slim-4-0-ver-pagecount-null-productname-canvas-product-productcategoryname-canvas-from-templates Music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/54AfbvLmprsXNalXs2xUJi Follow news on X: https://x.com/seanbwparker Follow me on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@all.in.all.with.alex Follow my Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/AllinAllwithAlex/ Listen to the Audio Version https://anchor.fm/alex-morris8 Subscribe to my channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYCE3hcGlcW_EA9o9P_gYbg?sub_confirmation=1 Interested in Music videos? Follow my videography channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TheVisualGoat?sub_confirmation=1 Interested in finding a new artist? Click the link below https://www.youtube.com/c/SirromTheRapper?sub_confirmation=1 tags podcast, best podcasts, all in all with alex podcast, all in all with alex, alex morris podcast, depression podcast, mental health podcast, mental therapy podcast, mental health matters, million dollars worth of game, podcast #allinallwithalex#podcast #allinpodcastclips #allinpodcastclips #motivation #personalgrowth #anxietyrelief #careercoaching #careerguidance #childhoodtrauma #personaldevelopment

Today most people around the world are using digital gadgets. These enable us to communicate instantaneously, pursue our daily work, and entertain ourselves through streaming videos and songs. But what happens when our past digital activities become evidence in criminal investigations? How are the data that mediate our lives turned into legal arguments?An anthropologist searches for answers.Onur Arslan is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Davis, who works at the intersections of science and technology studies, visual anthropology, law, and social studies. He graduated from Istanbul University with a B.A. in political science and international relations, and from Bilgi University with an M.A. in philosophy and social thought. For his Ph.D. research, he is investigating how digital technologies reshape the production of legal knowledge in terrorism trials. Through focusing on Turkish counterterrorism, he examines cultural, political, and technoscientific implications of evidence-making practices. His field research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and American Research Institute in Turkey.Check out these related resources: “The Power of Criminal Prosecutors” “How Bureaucracy Conceals Obligations to Afghan Refugees” “How Rumors Tap and Fuel Anxieties in the Internet Age”

Title: The Expat Pod: Sean BW Parker Subtitle: 10 years in the Istanbul art scene Episode Number: 39 Release Date: [15/04/2024] Duration: [00:46:53] Welcome to The Expat Pod, the podcast where we explore the ins and outs of living abroad, embracing new cultures, and navigating life as an expat. I'm your host, James Doran, and today, we're diving into the art scene in Istanbul and what it is like to leave the UK post higher education to scratch the itch of curiosity around living in a Muslim country to expand one's horizons. Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a British artist, musician and writer specialising in art, cultural theory and justice reform. He has published a number of books and albums, won several awards – including Koestler Arts platinum for play The Wolfstadt-Wire (2020) and Compelling Speech - The Stammering Enigma (2023) - and gave a TED talk in 2013. He holds Masters and BA degrees in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey, and worked for ten years in Istanbul as a musician and teacher, until 2014. He has given talks at Istanbul University, Kadir-Has University, University of Bristol, Bristol BIMM and Brighton Science Festival amongst other venues, and has been published in Time Out Istanbul, Louder Than War, The Monument Fellowship, The Epoch Times, TS Eliot Foundation, CIEO, New Thinking, STAMMA, Cosmopolitan and in two Westminster Commission reports. He has appeared on Talk Radio Live, NTV Turkey, Rise TV, BBC Radio Wales, in documentaries by Richard Vobes, Dogs On The Run films, Sky Arts, and on a number of podcasts. He has interviewed Ed Harcourt, Kristin Hersh, Julie Burchill, Danny Macnamara, Garry Bushell and Ian Broudie among other musicians and writers, was a music columnist for Turkish magazine the Multicultural Guide, and ran the Seafish music and arts venue on the Sussex coast in 2016. He was born in Exeter in 1975. Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sean-Bw-Parker/e/B06XZ76F5Y%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Latest album, Caucasian Nights: https://open.spotify.com/album/4SJMGGgVFOYm2YyUZFf8wu Saatchi Art page: https://www.saatchiart.com/seanbwparker Connect with Us: Website: https://www.tallmantravels.co.uk/the-expat-pod  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089327439022  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.expat.pod/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExpatPod LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-expat-pod/  00:00 Intro 00:45 Getting There 07:34 Being There 35:22 Review Subscribe, Rate, and Review: If you enjoyed this episode of The Expat Pod, please subscribe, rate, and leave us a review on your favourite podcast platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners like you and continue to deliver valuable content on life as an expat. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theexpatpod/message

Bekir Kuzudişli is a Professor at Istanbul University in Turkey. He completed his doctorate in 2005 with the thesis title of: “Ḥadīth Narration and Family Isnād”. Kuzudişli is now the Head of the Institute of Islamic Studies. Following his research on hadith narration and asānīd in Shiʿism, his current research interests focus is on asānīd, the history of ḥadīth, Orientalism, and ḥadīth in Shiʿism. Kuzudişli has academic publications in Turkish, Arabic and English. Some of his works include Shiʿa and Ḥadīth, Asbāb īrād al-ḥadīth: Siyāq riwāyāt al-ḥadīth fī-l-qarn alawwal al-hijrī, “Two Different States, Two Shiite Usūl al-Hadīth: Two books written in the Ottoman and Safavid Territories.” “What was the Sunnī Source of al-Shahīd al-Thānī's Bidāyah: al-Tībī's al-Khulāṣah or al-Jurjānī's al-Mukhtaṣar?”, “Relationship Between the Qur'ān and the Sunnah in Shiʿa”, “Sunnī-Shiʿi Interaction in the Early Period – The Transition of the Chains of Ahl al-Sunna to the Shīʿa”.

My guest today, is an author from Turkiye, Firat Sunel. He is a career diplomat. He is currently the Turkish Ambassador to India.Firat is a demonstrably fascinating novelist. His latest novel, “The Lighthouse Family”, is a wonderful example of storytelling, of craft and of everything literary. I venture to say without qualification that it is one of the best novels I have read in recent years.Because this novel embraces a universally-resonant human sentiment, it makes it relatable across cultures, to anyone anywhere, even if the story it tells is set deep in rural Turkiye.We'll delve into the unique blend of ethnic authenticity and international appeal that characterizes contemporary Turkish literature, tracing its evolution from folk tales to modern intellectual prose. From the reforms of Kamal Atatürk to the global recognition spurred by Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize, Turkish literature has garnered increasing attention on the world stage.Firat Sunel is a product of the rich Turkish literary heritage. I had the opportunity of a conversation with him (together with the Lithuanian Ambassador Diana Mickevičienė) live at the Bangalore Literature Festival; and today I have the privilege of having him as my guest here—another conversation I am eager to have. To that end, joining me from his home in New Delhi is the Ambassador to India from Turkiye, Firat Sunel.Buy THE LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY: https://amzn.to/47NB3hhABOUT FIRAT SUNELTurkish diplomat, lawyer, scriptwriter, and author he studied law at Istanbul University and did his postgraduate at Bochum ruhr university in Germany. As a diplomat, he served in several countries and is now in New Delhi as Turkiye's ambassador to IndiaHis novels include Salkım Söğütlerin Gölgesinde [In the Shade of the Weeping Willows, 2011] which inspired a tV series called Büyük Sürgün Kafkasya [The Great Exile Caucasia], İzmirli [Izmirli, My Last Love, 2015] and Sarpıncık Feneri [The Lighthouse Family, 2020].WHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in the fun etymology segment, "WHAT'S THAT WORD?!" where they discuss the word “DIPLOMAT”.CONTACT USReach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity..comOr here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycityOr here: https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/

How do we learn from the wisdom of others in a world intent on ruthless autonomy? Today, with the Gaza war as our backdrop, we ask Dr Yakoob Ahmed what pieces of advice he would give to his 18-year-old self. Dr Yakoob Ahmed is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He is a PhD graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies and currently teaches Islamic history at Istanbul University. He is in the process of completing his first book on the late Ottoman ulema, to be published next year.Listen to the audio version of the podcast:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjVFnhNI3T9Gkw636aApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-thinking-muslim/id1471798762Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly Zoom calls: https://www.patreon.com/TheThinkingMuslimYou can also support The Thinking Muslim through a one-time donation: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/DonateSign up to Muhammad Jalal's newsletter: https://jalalayn.substack.comPurchase our Thinking Muslim mug: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/merch Find us on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslimFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalaynWebsite Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Born in Exeter in 1975, Sean BW Parker spent his teenage years in Carmarthenshire, attended University for the Creative Arts in Surrey 1997-2003 finishing with a Masters in Fine Art. Moved to Istanbul and stayed for ten years, teaching and recording (3) albums, also lectured at Istanbul University and gave a TED talk 'Stammering and Creativity'. To connect with Sean visit his Twitter profile here: https://twitter.com/seanbwparker To purchase his books go to Amazon here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B06XZ76F5Y *** SylviaLive has subscribed to the principle that informative and inspirational content should be made available to anyone free of charge. That is why these podcasts are available for free. If you are in a position to be able to support this policy of free content and help us continue on this path of bringing a greater good to our world, there is an option to make a donation of your choosing here: https://sylvialive.com/donate-sylvialive/ *** To find out more about Sylvia Live and opt-in for the #sylvialive Newsletter go to https://sylvialive.com. *** Join the journey on your favourite social media here: https://www.instagram.com/sylvialive2023/ https://www.pinterest.ie/sylvialive2023/ https://twitter.com/sylvialive2023 https://www.youtube.com/@sylvialive https://www.facebook.com/sylvialivedotcom https://www.linkedin.com/company/sylvia-live https://www.quora.com/profile/Sylvia-A-B-Moran https://open.spotify.com/show/1qGI2WubBVYOFzCfSzS7fY https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sylvia-live/id1613518684 Telegram: @sylviaabmoran Whatsapp: +353 89 989 6436 * * * #creative #author #sylvalive #art #society --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sylvialive/message

This episode brings together two experts: Associate Professor Ali Çekici from the Periodontology Department of Istanbul University in Turkey and member of the EFP Scientific Affairs Committee, and Per-Anders Abrahamsson, Professor of Urologic Oncology at Lund University in Sweden. Among many topics, the panel discusses: 1. Why is periodontal disease more prevalent in men? Do they have lower hygiene standards? Are there biological reasons? 2. Is there a correlation between gum health and prostate cancer? 3. How are testosterone levels linked to periodontal health? 4. Does mental health impact oral health? 5. What does research say on intensive sports, steroids, supplements and potential higher risk for oral health issues?

There is a growing interest in Ottoman history. This has come from a recognition that an understanding of our Islamic history is necessary to carve our common Islamic future. But then the question arises, who writes this history? How do we know whether Ottoman historians, East and West, are purveyors of an orientalist narrative, slanted to match political interests? To untangle the facts from fiction, we have invited Dr Yakoob Ahmed who is an academic specialising in late Ottoman history. He is a PhD graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies and currently teaches Islamic history at Istanbul University. He is in the process of completing his first book on the late Ottoman ulema, to be published next year. Please consider making a donation, however small, to The Thinking Muslim, to receive a share in the reward and to help us make a greater impact. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/Donate⁠⁠ Find us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinking-Muslim-Podcast-105790781361490 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingmuslimpodcast/ Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host: https://twitter.com/jalalayn Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com#TheThinkingMuslimPodcast

Today Patty welcomes Sean BW Parker, a British writer, artist and lecturer in art, cultural theory and justice reform. Sean also happens to stutter, or stammer as it is referred to in Britain. He and Patty discuss the relationship between genetic disposition and environmental factors in the development of stuttering and what situations may exacerbate it. Sean explains that society places importance on speaking and that stuttering can be seen as embarrassing and a hindrance to success for some. Sean also describes some of the tougher times in school with bullying and pressure to read in front of class. Sean also is a singer as you will hear, and he and Patty discuss the brain processing that makes stuttering often disappear when a person sings. They also touch on some of the new technological advancements to help stuttering and some of Sean's great accomplishments from writing eight books, to giving TED Talks, and awards he has received along the way. Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a British writer, artist and lecturer in art, cultural theory and justice reform. He lived in Istanbul for ten years until 2014 where he lectured at Istanbul University, and gave a TED talk 'Stammering and Creativity'. He has published or contributed to a number of books, won six Koestler Arts awards (including a platinum for his play The Wolfstadt-Wire) and a Perrie Lectures essay award in 2019. Parker is Editor of False Allegations Watch for the Empower the Innocent organization (University of Bristol Innocence Project affiliated).   He has been published by/in the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Time Out Istanbul, Louder Than War, STAMMA and Cosmopolitan, and appeared at the Brighton Science Festival, on NTV Turkey. Rise and BBC Radio Wales. Here's the link to Compelling Speech: https://www.amazon.com/Compelling-Speech-Stammering-Sean-Parker/dp/B0BW2QM7NY/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1? "Whose" by Sean Parker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bzxNdUOfy8 https://twitter.com/seanbwparker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthorhttps://uk.linkedin.com/in/seanparker100https://open.spotify.com/artist/54AfbvLmprsXNalXs2xUJihttps://www.facebook.com/seanbwparkerpage/?locale=en_GBhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUJPU5UtyFDLP8R5kR9jJkA --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/patty-deutsche/support

This new book traces the lives of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs in Israel and Palestine who have dedicated their lives to building peaceful relations among the two peoples and between individual people who seek to live in peace and harmony with one another. These people have acted courageously and consistently in their work for peace. In this book, the author profiles the lives, thoughts, feelings, and actions of six important peacebuilders — men and women, secular and religious, 3 Jewish Israelis: Rabbi Michael Melchior, Professor Galia Golan, and Mrs. Hadassah Froman, and 3 Palestinian Arabs: Professor Mohammed Dajani, Ms. Huda Abuarquob, and Bishop Munib Younan. The reader learns about their visions for peace and their activities to bring their ideas to fruition in the real world of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Too many people have given up on peace. In contrast, the people in this book persevere for peace, thus keeping a flicker of hope alive for Israelis and Palestinians who live in the same land for people everywhere who continue to yearn for a peace agreement to be reached in the region.  Co-sponsored by: Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) is a coalition of over 170 organizations—and tens of thousands of Palestinians and Israelis—building people-to-people cooperation, coexistence, equality, shared society, mutual understanding, and peace among their communities. We add stability in times of crisis, foster cooperation that increases impact, and build an environment conducive to peace over the long term.  Author: Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish is an independent scholar, writer, blogger, lecturer, teacher, and mentor. For several years, he has been a Library Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. From 1991-2015, he served as the Founder and Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), Israel's premier interreligious institution. He was educated at Brandeis University (BA), Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the editor of Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue (Paulist Press, 2015) and the author of The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem (Hamilton Books, 2017) and Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2022). He writes a regular blog for The Times of Israel and contributes to The Jerusalem Report. He teaches courses about Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding at the Schechter Institutes for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, in the Department for Adult Education, and at the Drew University Theological School (via Zoom) in Madison, NJ. Moderator: Rabbi Gerry Serotta served as Executive Director of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington from 2014 through 2020, where he continued his work as a leading voice for interfaith cooperation, religious freedom, and human rights. He is the founding rabbi of Shirat HaNefesh from 2008 to 2014. Rabbi Serotta has served as Executive Director of the interreligious organization Clergy Beyond Borders, Associate Rabbi of Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, and Director of the Hillel Foundation at George Washington University. He was the founder and chair of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America and chaired the Board of Chaplains of George Washington University. Rabbi Serotta has received many awards for his communal work. He was named a Public Policy Conflict Resolution fellow by the University of Maryland School of Law and served as a senior rabbinic scholar in residence at the Religious Action Center of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Serotta received a master's degree in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College, a Master of Sacred Theology from New York Theological Seminary, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Hebrew Union College. Discussant: Ibrahim Anli is a civic entrepreneur with a career record that bridges nonprofit and academic experience. He was a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 2007-08. Ibrahim joined the Journalists and Writers Foundation's (JWF) Ankara office as the diplomacy coordinator in 2010. In 2013, he became the secretary-general of Abant Platform, JWF's Istanbul-based forum of intellectuals. Ibrahim Anli was a lecturer and acting chair at the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at Tishk International University in Erbil in 2016-17. He is currently a volunteer instructor for the OLLI at George Mason University, a member of the Braver Angels Scholars Council, and a member of the Public Diplomacy Council of America. He holds a BA in Economics from Istanbul University, an MA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Sabanci University, and a certificate in Strategic Management for Leaders of NGOs from Harvard University.

Host Professor Majda Thurnher is joined by Prof. Naci Kocer, Professor of Radiology at Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine. Prof. Naci Kocer has been responsible for interventional neuroradiology and diagnostic neuroradiology at the very same institution since 1993. He is also the author of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms: A Case based Atlas of Imaging and Treatment.And also Prof. Isil Saatci. A Professor of Neuroradiology in the Radiology Department of Yuksek Ihtisas University, Koru Hospital, Turkey. Together they discuss who inspired them and their first intervention's. The hot topics in intervention neuroradiology now. The ESNR's annual meeting in Vienna and which professional topics will be discussed............Our podcast is your reference for education and updates from the European Societyof Neuroradiology (ESNR). Join expert moderators and guests in reviewing,discussing, and debating various topics within all fields of diagnostic andinterventional neuroradiology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do you think it's possible to heal yourself? Metin Hara has worked hard to develop a set of esoteric skills combined with modern medicine to help us help ourselves. Metin Hara was born in Istanbul with a genetic blood coagulation disorder due to a factor 8 protein deficiency along with allergies to 1200 things! With so much sickness to contend with as a child and frequent hospitalisations, Metin decided to control his illnesses himself from the age of 12. A family friend guided his healing abilities from the age of 15. Metin has continued to add to his esoteric journey by exploring many other teachings, alongside becoming a physiotherapist at Istanbul University. This choice was deeply influenced by the physiotherapists who helped Metin's father walk again following a terrible car accident. Along the way, Metin also became a successful actor to fund his education, deemed Most Promising Actor in the International Ankara Film Festival in 2008 as one of the leading actors in the film “Listen to the Nay” released in 2007. This work, no doubt, helped his current work as a public speaker to cumulatively thousands of people. Nowadays, Hara mostly spends his time giving private sessions and seminars, and writing books. His first book, The Path, is the first of the Invasion of Love trilogy, sold more than 100,000 copies within three months and remained on bestseller lists for eight months. The second book, The Breath came out in October 2016, and in March 2018 his 3rd and 4th books were launched: Action For Goodness and Science For Goodness. For any life he touches, Metin plants a tree or adopts a dolphin. In April of 2021, Metin released Dandelion and the Wind, Turkey's first interactive inner journey novel. If he were to have a mantra it would be, "Whatever you are doing, make the best of it".

Dr. Yakoob Ahmed is an Ottoman historian with a specialization in late Ottomon history. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and he currently teaches at Istanbul University in Turkiye. I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Yakoob after I attended a weekend seminar he did in Chicago on Ottoman history. We discussed his origin story, his identity as a "Londoner", how he developed empathy for others, and biases that Western academics operate from..amongst other things. Resources for "Sultans and Sneakers" Patreon:  https://patreon.com/sultansandsneakers YouTube:  www.youtube.com/sultansandsneakers Instagram:  https://instagram.com/sultansandsneakers Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SultansNSnkrs Facebook:  https://facebook.com/sultansandsneakers

99 years ago, the Ottoman Caliphate, the world's last widely recognised caliphate, was abolished on 3 March 1924 (27 Rajab 1342 AH) by decree of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The process was one of Atatürk's reforms following the replacement of the Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey. Abdulmejid II was deposed as the last Ottoman caliph, as was Mustafa Sabri as the last Ottoman shaykh al-Islām. We explore the circumstances that led to this momentous event. Why the Ottoman caliphate fell. What this date should mean to us? And the impact this decision had on Muslims at the time and has on us today. Dr Yakoob Ahmed holds a PhD graduate from SOAS, University of London. An Ottoman historian, he is currently teaching Islamic history at Istanbul University and was a visiting fellow at the Modern Turkish Studies Centre at Istanbul Şehir University. His research focuses are Muslim intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Islamic constitutionalism, identity, nationalism and collective memory construction. Join our Telegram group here: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim You can donate to the show here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/contribute Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jalalayn and https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Website Archive: thinkingmuslim.com

Bilsay serves as Regional CFO (TIP Region) and Board Member at DöhlerGroup. DohlerGroup operates in more than 130 countries across all continents and offers fully integrated food and beverage solutions from concept to reality.Bilsay has over a decade of experience in M&A, Internal Auditing, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Business Development, Compliance Management, Process Reengineering and has a record of architecting financial strategies for maximizing growth & revenue backed by a CMA. Bilge is a highly analytical professional who assists international clients in the acquisition of other businesses. Create and implement systems to aid internal financial controls, as well as initiatives to improve financial operations.Bilsay is exceptional in finance/accounting policies and procedures, and has proven expertise in delivering international projects within defined cost, scope & timelines and has exceptional overall business acumen. Prior to DöhlerGroup, Bilsay worked as a CFO at Bunge, CFOO at Solera, Inc, and EMEA East Controller, Turkey Finance and Accounting Manager at Monsanto. Bilsay graduated with a degree in business and administration from Istanbul University and earned a master's in leadership development from Esade.Support the show

Bu bölümde, 1980'lerden günümüze İstanbul'da Bizans tarihine yönelik kurumsallaşan ve artan ilgi sonucu üretilen sergiler, konferanslar ve yayınlara kısa bir bakış atıyoruz. Gülru Tanman lisans eğitimini Bilkent Üniversitesi'nde tamamlamasının ardından University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies'de yüksek lisans eğitimini tamamladı. İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü'nün kuruluşunda ve gelenekselleşen Uluslararası Sevgi Gönül Bizans Araştırmalar Sempozyumu'nun oluşumunda görev aldı. Halen İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü yöneticiliği görevindedir. Emir Alışık Yüksek Lisans eğitimini Central European University Karşılaştırmalı Tarih: Disiplinlerarası Orta Çağ Tarihi bölümünde tamamladı. Hâlen doktora çalışmalarını İstanbul Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü'nde sürdürmekte ve İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Bizans Araştırmaları bölümünde çalışmaktadır. “İstanbul'da Bu Ne Bizantinizm!”: Popüler Kültürde Bizans sergisinin küratörüdür. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Inspired by Istanbul Research Institute's exhibition at Pera Museum titled “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture, we invited artists, authors, and musicians to converse with researchers of Byzantine history on how they have engaged with Byzantine history in their works. We explore the unearthly ways of appropriating Byzantine culture in unlikely mediums and genres, showing novel ways of engagement with Byzantine heritage in popular culture.  Episode 7 Current Interest in Byzantium: Gülru Tanman and Emir Alışık consider recent Byzantine events and institutionalization in Istanbul. In the current episode, we revisit the exhibitions, conferences and publications produced thanks to the institutionalized and increased interest in Byzantine history in Istanbul from the 1980s to the present. Gülru Tanman, having had a BA degree from Bilkent University, completed her MA at the University of Birmingham Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies. She has actively worked in the establishment of Istanbul Research Institute, and in the conceiving of International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium. She is currently the head of the institute.  Emir Alışık completed his MA at the Department of Comparative History: Interdisciplinary Medieval History at Central European University, and is a PhD candidate at Istanbul University, Department of Art History. Currently, he is working as the project manager at the Byzantine Studies Department of Istanbul Research Institute, and curated “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture.

Doç. Dr. Mehmet Yalçın Yılmaz devlet iletişimini anlatıyor. Devlet iletişiminde söylem birliğinin önemine değinen Yalçın, Cumhurbaşkanlığı İletişim Başkanlığının bu alandaki rolüne dikkat çekiyor. *Doç. Dr. Mehmet Yalçın Yılmaz, İstanbul Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü öğretim üyesi. Çalışma ve ilgi alanları arasında Türk modernleşmesi, Türk siyasi tarihi, basın tarihi, dil politikaları, kültürel çalışmalar ve Türkçe öğretimi yer almaktadır. Ayrıca Yılmaz, Star gazetesinde köşe yazıları yazmaktadır. Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Yalçın Yılmaz discusses government communication. Yalçın emphasises the importance of unity of discourse in government communication, highlighting the function of the Presidency's Directorate of Communications in this regard. *Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Yalçın Yılmaz is a faculty member at Istanbul University's Institute of Turcology Researches. His research and interests include Turkish modernisation, Turkish political history, press history, language policies, cultural studies, and Turkish language teaching. Yılmaz is also a columnist at the Star newspaper.

Doktor Öğretim Üyesi Ahmet Faruk Çeçen dezenformasyon tanımını detaylı bir şekilde anlatarak bu konuda en çok karıştırılan misenformasyon ve malenformasyonlar kavramlarına değiniyor. Cambridge Analytica skandalından bahseden Çeçen, medyada yer alan dezenformasyon kampanyalarını değerlendiriyor. * Marmara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinden 2012 yılında mezun olan Çeçen, yüksek lisans ve doktora eğitimini İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde tamamladı. “Amerikan Medyasının Dış Haberlerinde Medya-Politika İlişkisi Bağlamında Bir Değerlendirme: New York Times Gazetesi Örnekleminde 2013 Mısır Askeri Müdahalesi Haber Kapsamının Analizi” adlı yüksek lisans tezinde Amerikan medyasında dış haberleri inceledi. İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde araştırma görevlisi ve Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Gazetecilik Bölümünde doktor öğretim üyesidir. Asst. Prof. Ahmet Faruk Çeçen delves into the definition of disinformation and discusses the terms misinformation and malinformation, which are the most confusing terms in this field. Talking about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Çeçen evaluates the disinformation campaigns in the media. *Asst. Prof. Ahmet Faruk Çeçen graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Communication, in 2012 and earned his master's and PhD degrees from Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication. In his master's thesis titled, "An Evaluation in the Context of the Media-Policy Relationship in the International News of the American Media: Analysis of the News Coverage of the 2013 Egyptian Military Intervention in the Sample of the New York Times Newspaper," he looked at international news in the American media. Çeçen is working as a research assistant at Istanbul University Faculty of Communication and as a faculty member at Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism.

Terrorists targeted celebrations of Pride Month -threatening participants in Turkey and Ramallah until they cancelled them, and perpetrating a mass shooting in Norway! Why? You might ask. Well, the history goes back to Muhammad and his recommended punishment for homosexual activity. Chanting “Allahu Akbar” and showing frightening videos, they intimidated students at Istanbul University into cancelling their LGBT+ picnic. In Ramallah, the son of aprominent preacher from the terror group Hamas, posted a video on social media warning people arriving at a concert hall, that the star singer-songwriter about to perform is banned because he's gay. In Oslo, Norway, just hours before the Pride Parade wasabout to begin, Zaniar Matapour, a 42-year-old Iranian refugee, who'd come to Norway at age 12, began a shooting rampage. He targeted three gay sites, notably the London Pub. He shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he started shooting and left a trail of 2 dead and over 21 injured. Matapour is a fascinating guy. You will hear his life story, which includes mental illness, and many run ins with the law, for which he was hardly punished. Most interesting, are his connections to terrorists and ISIS. Not unlike many other lone wolves, Matapour had been on Norway's counterterrorism radar until they let them fall through the cracks. Now the authorities are investigating to see what they missed, trying to determine whether this was: a terror attack, a hate crime, a result of his mental illness, or all of the above. Indeed, having much similarity to Omar Mateen's attack on the Pulse Nightclub, it may havebeen a copycat crime!

İstanbul'dan Bizans'a: Yeniden Keşfin Yolları, 1800–1955 ve “İstanbul'da Bu Ne Bizantinizm!”: Popüler Kültürde Bizans sergilerinin yaratıcı ekibi Brigitte Pitarakis, Gülru Tanman ve Emir Alışık sergilerin hazırlık sürecini ve Pera Müzesi'nin geçmiş Bizans sergilerini ele alıyor. Gülru Tanman lisans eğitimini Bilkent Üniversitesi'nde tamamlamasının ardından University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies'de yüksek lisans eğitimini tamamladı. İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü'nün kuruluşunda görev alarak, enstitünün Bizans Araştırmaları Bölümünün bel kemiğini oluşturan Semavi Eyice kitaplığının tasnifini ve yeni kitaplıklarla, arşivlerin geliştirilmesini üstlendi. Halen İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü yöneticiliği görevindedir. Brigitte Pitarakis doktorasını Paris I Sorbonne Üniversitesinde Arkeoloji ve Sanat Tarihi alanında tamamlamıştır. Paris CNRS'te Araştırmacı ve EPHE'de doktora yönetme yetkisi olan Brigitte Pitarakis kuruluşundan bu yana İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü'nün Bizans Araştırmaları alanında bilimsel danışmanıdır. İstanbul'dan Bizans'a: Yeniden Keşfin Yolları, 1800–1955 sergisinin küratörüdür. Emir Alışık Yüksek Lisans eğitimini Central European University Karşılaştırmalı Tarih: Disiplinlerarası Orta Çağ Tarihi bölümünde tamamladı. Hâlen doktora çalışmalarını İstanbul Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi bölümünde sürdürmekte ve İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Bizans Araştırmaları bölümünde çalışmaktadır. “İstanbul'da Bu Ne Bizantinizm!”: Popüler Kültürde Bizans sergisinin küratörüdür. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brigitte Pitarakis, Gülru Tanman, and Emir Alışık, creators of From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800–1955 and “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture exhibitions, talk on how they prepared for these and past Byzantium-related exhibitions at Pera Museum.   Gülru Tanman, having had a BA degree from Bilkent University, completed her MA at the University of Birmingham Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies. She has actively worked in the establishment of Istanbul Research Institute, and its acquisition of Semavi Eyice book collection, as well as in expanding the archive and the library. She is currently the head of the institute.  Brigitte Pitarakis has her PhD from Paris I Sorbonne University, Department of Archaeology and Art History. She is currently a researcher at Paris CNRS and has the accreditation to supervise research at EPHE. She is the scientific advisor to Istanbul Research Institute for the Byzantine Studies Department, and curated From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800–1955. Emir Alışık completed his MA at the Department of Comparative History: Interdisciplinary Medieval History at Central European University, and is a PhD candidate at Istanbul University, Department of Art History. Currently, he is working as the project manager at the Byzantine Studies Department of Istanbul Research Institute, and curated “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture.

Photo:  Berg Ararat collotype #Turkey:  Justice begins after 100 years.   Destina Kantik @bakermckenzie, a Turkish-Armenian attorney, is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School with degrees from Robert College and Istanbul University Law Faculty summa cum laude. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://armenianweekly.com/2022/03/29/turkish-armenian-attorneys-will-describe-the-restitution-of-minority-property-in-turkey/ https://www.dailysabah.com/minorities/2015/11/21/turkey-to-pay-compensation-to-minorities-for-seized-properties           Destina Kantik @bakermckenzie, a Turkish-Armenian Aattorney, is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, with degrees from Robert College and Istanbul University Law Faculty summa cum laude.            She works on minority issues and matters of commercial law and arbitration. Along with her father, Omer Kantik, and her sister Arda, she has experience working with and representing minority communities in Turkey, including the Armenian and Jewish communities in Turkey, in claims for restitution of their property. 

In this second part of an extended interview with Ottoman historian, Dr Yakoob Ahmed from Istanbul University, we take a look at some of the challenges and controversies that are associated with the ulema during the latter period of the Ottoman Empire. We ask Dr Ahmed to explain why it is said that the ulema were an obstruction to the progress of the Caliphate and scrutinise the claims that the ulema outlawed the printing press and coffee. You can donate to the show here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/contribute Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jalalayn and https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Website: thinkingmuslim.com

In this two part show we talk Dr Yakoob Ahmed from Istanbul University about the relationship between the ulema (scholars) and the Ottoman empire. Were they mere political apparatchiks, steeped in the power and patronage of powerful sultans? In this first part we take a look at the Ottoman ulema in the early period, the issue of the 'caliphate', Sultan Fatih's ilmiyah reforms and Sultan Selim's defeat of the Mamluks and the response of the Arab ulema and the independence of the ulema system. You can donate to the show here: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/contribute Follow us on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jalalayn and https://twitter.com/thinking_muslim Website: thinkingmuslim.com

A man in the middle of total chaos in a supermarket, makes a confusing, but meaningful purchase.From: Istanbul, TurkeyLanguages: English, TurkishCredits:Thank you for listening to Ochenta Stories. This story was written by Tekin Tekin, Tekin is 18 years old and studies Greek Literature at Istanbul University.Tekin also performed both the English and Turkish versions of this story.The sound design for this piece was by Luis López.

Welcome back to Sesil Pir! We were so heart and mind blown by our guests first appearance in January 2021, that we HAD to invite her back! Sesil currently serves as Head of Employee Experience at Takeda Pharmaceutical and the Founder and Principal Consultant of SESIL PIR Consulting GmbH, a boutique management consultancy, focusing on changing the status quo of work. Sesil is an active contributor of Forbes, has been published in the Harvard Business Review, HR Zone and UK's HR Magazine, and has contributed to several Human Resources Management books. She started her career as a Marketing Consultant with Deloitte & Touché in 1999. Since, she has worked for Honeywell International, Cargill Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Novartis AG as an HR Functional Leader. She holds an MA-HRIR from Carlson School of Management, an Executive MBA from Harvard University, and a BA from Eastern Michigan University. She is a certified Six Sigma in project management and is also certified to administer a variety of 360-degree feedback and organizational Assessment Tools. She is an honorary faculty at Indian School of Business & Istanbul University. She has been recently recognized as '40 Thinkers Under 40' in Europe and '101 Employee Engagement Influencers' globally. To get more of Sesil Pir: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sesil-pir-5723a02 Twitter: whirlingchief For more Teresa Quinlan: www.iqeqtq.com For more Rhys Thomas: www.truselfcoaching.com

In this informative episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain hosts the erudite Ottoman historian Dr Yakoob Ahmed. #BloodBrothersPodcast​ #DrYakoobAhmed​ #OttomanHistory​ Dr Ahmed who is currently a lecturer at Istanbul University, explains what initially led him to study history as a postgraduate, and subsequently going onto specialise in Ottoman history, specifically the 'Hamidian period' (Reign of Caliph Abdulhamid II). Dilly also questions Dr Ahmed about a number of controversial practices widely attributed to the Ottomans, and whether any of those positions had scholarly support and any Islamic basis. Topics of discussion also include how Islamic the Ottoman Dynasty was in terms of their state institutions, governance and laws, as well as the importance of reconnecting with Ottoman history in the political, spiritual and intellectual revival of the Ummah. This episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast was in partnership with Family Break: https://familybreak.org.uk/​

Today we welcome Sesil Pir! Sesil currently serves as Head of Employee Experience at Takeda Pharmaceutical and the Founder and Principal Consultant of SESIL PIR Consulting GmbH, a boutique management consultancy, focusing on changing the status quo of work. Sesil is an active contributor of Forbes, has been published in the Harvard Business Review, HR Zone and UK’s HR Magazine, and has contributed to several Human Resources Management books. She started her career as a Marketing Consultant with Deloitte & Touché in 1999. Since, she has worked for Honeywell International, Cargill Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Novartis AG as an HR Functional Leader. She holds an MA-HRIR from Carlson School of Management, an Executive MBA from Harvard University, and a BA from Eastern Michigan University. She is a certified Six Sigma in project management and is also certified to administer a variety of 360-degree feedback and organizational Assessment Tools. She is an honorary faculty at Indian School of Business & Istanbul University. She has been recently recognized as '40 Thinkers Under 40' in Europe and '101 Employee Engagement Influencers' globally. Sesil invites us into an incredible discussion on: - Facing challenge and change - Ability to adapt and grow - Passion to create safety and love environments - The polarity of extremes and how this can influence life - The internal power to create inner safety and love and then transfer that to you interconnectedness with others - Thriving = mindset despite circumstances - Mindsets of scarcity, abundance, growth, fixed which sits between the emotion and the thoughts – here is where we shift HOW we show up - Everything begins and ends with self AND we are also social - Learning to stand on your own is important to then being able to be social as a contributor to the whole - Corrupt-ness of education; competition and grading and being compared to, leads to workplaces that stack rank and pit each other against one another = scarcity mindset which negatively impacts creativity and resourcefulness and wellbeing - By virtue of relating and caring we connect and THEN influence To connect with Sesil Pir: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sesil-pir-5723a02 For more of Rhys Thomas: www.truselfcoaching.com For more of Teresa Quinlan: www.iqeqtq.com

Ogun Unal’s expertise is in industrial engineering and metallurgy. He shares a particularly interesting example with us describing how the oxidized top layer of molten Aluminum can be pushed sub-surface and lead to failures in the cast components if not handled properly. Ogun also shares an interesting take on how engineers spark change in the world, and what life might be like without the innovations brought to us by engineers.The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us on the web at www.testfixturedesign.com and www.designtheproduct.com Industrial Engineering, Metallurgy, Manufacturing Engineering, Metal Alloys, Oxidized Aluminum, Istanbul University

Turkish schools have been shut since mid-March to curb the spread of the coronavirus but students are expected to return to class on September 21. But there are risks: in the United States, 97,000 students tested positive in the last two weeks alone. So, what's the key to reopening schools safely? Gamze Sart Associate Professor at Istanbul University's Faculty of Education Robert Jenkins Global Chief of Education at UNICEF

The United Arab Emirates became only the third Arab country, and the first in more than 25 years, to recognise Israel. We discuss the diplomatic blowback and why Palestinians are calling the move a betrayal. Plus, Turkish students are expected to return to class on September 21 for the first time since mid-March. But what's the key to reopening schools safely amidst the coronavirus pandemic? And what lessons can be learned from countries where students are already back in classrooms? Ian Black Senior fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre Daoud Kuttab Palestinian Journalist and Director General of the Community Media Network ​ Gamze Sart Associate Professor at Istanbul University's Faculty of Education Robert Jenkins Global Chief of Education at UNICEF

The conversion of Hagia Sofia back to a mosque and the growing interest in Turkey's Ottoman roots has stirred the imagination of Muslims across the globe. In this Podcast we had the pleasure of discussing the significance of the growing Islamic sentiment in a Turkey led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with Dr Yakoob Ahmed (PhD graduate from SOAS, University of London, Ottoman historian, teaching Islamic history at Istanbul University).

Lecture by Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul University). Thirty-six shipwrecks dated to the fifth to tenth centuries AD have been discovered in the Theodosian harbour of Istanbul, in the district of Yenikapı. Under the auspices of the ‘Istanbul University Yenikapi Shipwrecks Project', carried out by Istanbul University's Department of Conservation of Marine Archaeological Objects, our team has undertaken the recording and dismantling of twenty-seven shipwrecks as well as conservation/restoration and reconstruction projects of thirty-one shipwrecks in total. Shipwrecks of various types and sizes have been exposed since 2005; the majority are still under study.During the construction of the Marmaray railway and metro stations in Yenikapı between 2004 and 2012, no fewer than thirty-six shipwrecks, dating from the Middle Byzantine period to about the fifth to tenth centuries AD, were revealed. The ongoing archaeological excavations have confirmed that Constantinople's main harbour, Portus Theodosiacus, was once situated in this former natural bay, now silted by the ancient Lykos (Bayrampaşa) river and lying about 300 m from today's shoreline.The ships from the Theodosian harbour display a moment frozen in time and have made tremendous contributions to information on shipbuilding technology and development during Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Istanbul Archaeological Museums turned to the Istanbul University's Department of Conservation of Marine Archaeological Objects to deal with most of the shipwrecks. Department President and project director Professor Ufuk Kocabaş and a hard-working team of Department assistants, full-time specialists, and Istanbul University graduate students have been working for over 6 years in the active construction site in tent-covered pits to document and carefully recover the shipwrecks. Undoubtedly, the shipwrecks constitute the most remarkable artefact group, especially for nautical archaeologists. The thirty-six ships can be divided into three groups: long warships (galleys); sea-going traders; and small, local trading vessels.

This weekend we present DJ who was born in Istanbul in 1978. After he finished his education years at Istanbul University his music curiosity started with trance in 2000. Magma started his music life with melodic techno, melodic house and techno, which he have been actively continuing since 2008. Recently, Magma have been playing indie dance, electronic and dark disco more actively. Enjoy our #060 podcast. Follow & Support: https://soundcloud.com/arda-koroglu

There are approximately 8.5 million adults living in the United States with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder (SUD).1 During this PsychU presentation, the speakers describe the impact of drugs of abuse on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) symptomatology, discuss how phases of recovery can impact MDD, and identify considerations for treatment of comorbid SUD and MDD. Featuring: • Robin Nelson, MD Psychiatrist, DGR Comprehensive Behavioral Health, LLC • Roueen Rafeyan, MD Psychiatrist, Chief Medical Officer for Gateway Foundation Addiction Treatment Centers 1Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2017. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2017-nsduh-annual-national-report. September 2018. Accessed March 14, 2019. Robin Nelson, MD, is the Former PsychU Major Depressive Disorder Section Advisor, a psychiatrist at DGR Comprehensive Behavioral Health LLC in Wyomissing, PA, and an attending psychiatrist at the Caron Foundation Treatment Center in Wernersville, PA. Dr. Nelson received his MD from Duke University’s School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Duke University’s Psychiatric Residency Education Program. Dr. Nelson is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Roueen Rafeyan, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer for Gateway Foundation Addiction Treatment Centers and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Dr. Rafeyan was identified as the Top Psychiatrist in the Nation by Consumer Reports in 2007. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and American Society of Addiction. Dr. Rafeyan earned his MD at Istanbul University in Turkey and completed his residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Speakers are paid consultants to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. PsychU is supported by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC), Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OAPI), and Lundbeck, LLC – committed supporters of the mental health treatment community. The opinions expressed by PsychU’s contributors are their own and are not endorsed or recommended by PsychU or its sponsors. The information provided through PsychU is intended for the educational benefit of mental health care professionals and others who support mental health care. It is not intended as, nor is it a substitute for, medical care, advice, or professional diagnosis. Health care professionals should use their independent medical judgement when reviewing PsychU's educational resources. Users seeking medical advice should consult with a health care professional. No CME or CEU credits are available through any of the resources provided by PsychU. Some of the contributors may be paid consultants for OPDC, OAPI, and / or Lundbeck, LLC.

In this informative episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain hosts the erudite Ottoman historian Dr. Yakoob Ahmed. #BloodBrothersPodcast #DrYakoobAhmed #OttomanHistory Dr. Ahmed who is currently a lecturer at Istanbul University, explains what initially led him to study history as a postgraduate, and subsequently going onto specialize in Ottoman history, specifically the 'Hamidian period' (Reign of Caliph Abdulhamid II). Dilly also questions Dr. Ahmed about a number of controversial practices widely attributed to the Ottomans, and whether any of those positions had scholarly support and any Islamic basis. Topics of discussion also include how Islamic the Ottoman Dynasty was in terms of their state institutions, governance, and laws, as well as the importance of reconnecting with Ottoman history in the political, spiritual and intellectual revival of the Ummah. Please support us: Patreon.com/themadmamluks or via PayPal themadmamluks.com/donate

In this insider's look at reservoir characterization for The Leading Edge, host Andrew Geary speaks with Ali Tura, Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Reservoir Characterization Project at Colorado School of Mines. In this conversation, Ali and Andrew discuss the historical importance of this topic, how the techniques and case studies benefit the industry, why multi-disciplinary teams are essential in today's industry, advice for current and future geophysicists, plus a look at the papers that make up this special section. Visit https://seg.org/podcast for the complete show notes. Subscribers can read the full articles at https://library.seg.org/toc/leedff/39/2 and abstracts are always free. BIOGRAPHY Ali Tura is Professor of Geophysics and Director of Reservoir Characterization Project at Colorado School of Mines. His expertise is in the areas of seismic data processing, seismic analysis, time-lapse seismic, rock physics, fiber optic technology, and data analytics. He is also Chief Scientist at Tulip Geosciences, a geosciences consulting and training company. Prior to this, he was Geophysical Senior Fellow at ConocoPhillips. Ali was a founding member and COO of 4th Wave Imaging, a seismic R&D company. His other responsibilities have been leading time-lapse seismic reservoir monitoring at Chevron and Shell, and amplitude-preserving migration based AVO analysis at Elf (now Total). Ali received a B.Sc. degree from Istanbul University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Engineering Geosciences. Ali is active within the SEG. He served as SEG Vice-president, Vice-chairman and Chairman of the SEG Global Affairs Committee, and Chairman of the SEG Research Committee. He has been a member and Chairman of the editorial board of The Leading Edge and Associate Editor of GEOPHYSICS. He has also been a board member of SEG Global Inc. and Co-chairman of OTC Technical Committee. CREDITS Original music by Zach Bridges. This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Andrew Geary. Thank you to the SEG podcast team: Jennifer Crockett, Ally McGinnis, and Mick Swiney.

In this Episode I am joined by Şeyma Nur Akinci. Şeyma is a student of law student at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University And Sociology at Istanbul University. She is also an avid traveler, having traveled to 10 countries and counting. In this episode we will be speaking about topics like Law, Traveling and Ottoman History.

Turkish authorities captured key members of Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle, including his older sister, brother-in-law and more than a dozen Daesh members. But there’s still a lingering question of what to do with the thousands of foreign Daesh prisoners in Turkey, Syria and Iraq whose legal status remains muddled. Turkey and the United States have called on countries, many of them in Europe, to take back their citizens. But how will this transfer happen? And is Europe even willing to take them back? Guests: David Lowe Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett’s Law School Kivanc Ulusoy Associate Professor at Istanbul University

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. This week’s news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com EHC NAMES ALTMIŞDÖRT TO LEAD TURKEY OPERATION Oshawa, Canada-based EHC Global has named H. Eren Altmişdört to the newly created role of general manager, EHC Turkey. Altmişdört, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Istanbul University in Turkey and has more than 35 years of sales and management experience, will manage EHC operations in Turkey and lead the implementation of the company’s goals and strategies throughout the country and neighboring markets. He will report to Norman Rosnersky, EHC managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa.   Image credit: courtesy of EHC Global To read the full transcript of today's podcast, visit: elevatorworld.com/news Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes│Google Play | SoundCloud│Stitcher │TuneIn

Sinan Yıldırmaz of Istanbul University on "Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey" (IB Tauris), examining the transition to a multi-party system after the Second World War and the importance of urban migration in shaping politics up to today. Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get full transcripts (in English and Turkish) of every interview upon publication, transcripts of the entire Turkey Book Talk archive, and access to an exclusive 30% discount on over 200 Turkey/Ottoman history titles published by IB Tauris.

In 1963, archaeologists from the University of Chicago and Istanbul University examined a site known by locals as Göbekli Tepe, or "Potbelly Hill."  They dismissed the site at the time as merely a medieval cemetery due to the numerous slabs of stone thought to be grave markers.  However, in 1993, German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, who was doing work at another Neolithic site in nearby Nevalı Çori, heard about the report and decided to investigate it for himself.  What Schmidt and his team would eventually discover would turn out to be one of the most astounding, mysterious and important archaeological discoveries in history.  Laying just below the surface was the earliest known sanctuary structure ever built by humans.  Somehow, a group of prehistoric hunter-gathers had managed to quarry massive slabs of stone from nearby outcroppings, some weighing as much as 7 to 10 tons with lengths of up to 18 feet.  They then moved them hundreds of feet into numerous circular configurations.  This was done without the use of wheels or animals and before the invention of metalworking, pottery or writing.  The earliest works found at the site date to over 11,000 years old, or around 9600 B.C., predating Stonehenge by at least 7000 years.  While we may not know yet what belief system would motivate these ancient, primitive peoples to undertake such a monumental task, the result of their unbelievable efforts may have led to a ground-breaking theory.  Instead of the previous view that the invention of the domestication of plants and animals led humans to develop civilization and with it, religious belief systems, the human desire to worship as a community may have led to farming and thus sparked civilization.  As researchers are still seeking answers as to what these people believed, there are those that think the answers may be far more mystical than what many are willing to imagine. Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode: http://www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2018/05/26/ep-108-gbekli-tepe

Nagihan Haliloğlu posits Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar as a pioneer of literary cosmopolitanism in Turkey, considering his lectures on literature, given in 1950’s at the Turkish Literature department, Istanbul University. This paper aims to posit Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar as a pioneer of literary cosmopolitanism in Turkey, considering his Lectures on Literature, collection of lectures given in 1950’s at the Turkish Literature department, Istanbul University. The lectures reveal a literary cosmopolitanism that combines an understanding of literary, architectural and musical patterns that travel across borders. As such, Tanpınar’s lectures can be seen a vademecum for the comparative literature student interested in considering European and Turkish literatures together. Tanpınar’s work and enduring influence on Turkish writers such as Orhan Pamuk is further proof that only through a good knowledge of local tradition are literary cosmopolitanism and comparative literary studies possible.

[intro music]   Hello, and welcome to Episode Twenty-three of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery, the podcast of the MS Discovery Forum. I’m your host, Dan Keller.   This week’s podcast features an interview with Professor Aksel Siva about radiologically isolated syndrome. But to begin, here is a brief summary of some of the latest developments on the MS Discovery Forum at msdiscovery.org.   The role of diet in MS is a longstanding question, for which there many opinions, but few definitive answers. Researchers and clinicians know little about how diet may contribute to the risk of developing MS, and how it may help or hurt the progress of the disease once it starts. Nevertheless, patients are pushing for answers, hoping that there is more they can do to help slow their disease. We recently published a story looking into all the facts and myths of diet. We also covered what makes diet so difficult to study in a clinical setting, and where the field is going from here.   2015 is just around the corner, and deadlines are looming for submitting meeting abstracts and funding applications. Abstract submission deadlines for the Keystone Symposia are coming up in December, and ECTRIMS and the National MS Society have deadlines for funding opportunities early in January. For more details on the deadlines and how to submit your materials, go to the professional resources tab on our website and click on either “meetings and events” or “funding opportunities.”   We have also posted several exciting new job opportunities on our website. Go to the “jobs” section under professional resources to view them. And, if you’re looking for a neurologist, a laboratory technician, a post-doc, or any other position—let us know. We’ll help spread the word on our jobs section and in our weekly newsletter, and it won’t cost you a dime to reach a very choice group of MS professionals. Simply go to the “jobs” section and click on the “submit new item” button under the “Job Listings” header.   [transition music]   Now to the interview. Professor Aksel Siva is a professor of neurology at Istanbul University in Turkey. His work spans areas from clinical neuroimmunology to neuro-epidemiology to research in headaches.    Interviewer – Dan Keller When we met he discussed radiologically isolated syndrome or RIS and he starts by describing what it is.   Interviewee – Aksel Siva It is by definition an individual who gets an MRI for another reason such as migraine headache or whatever. Then, it turns out that they have MS looking like lesions in their brains. You cannot explain those lesions with any other pathology. They are not related to the patient's cause of referral for an MRI. Their neurological examination is normal, and these people never have experienced any neurological symptom, which might be consistent with past history of MS whatsoever.   It is an MRI diagnosis actually. It is not a clinical diagnosis. The question is whether these people do really have subclinical MS or asymptomatic MS and are they going to develop the disease. So the question is what to do when you see these patients. And this has been recently described as radiologically isolated syndrome by Okuda et al. At that time, there were acute CSF and now Darin is in Texas and at that time his mentor Daniel Pelletier is at Yale. So they have introduced this term. There have been, I would say, three pivotal papers by the French group, Christine Lebrun and her colleagues, and from our center together with Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Then this group came together and we have formed the Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Consortium, which has been later on joined by some other centers from Europe and the U.S.    MDSF So if you don’t know whether these people will go on to MS or where they stand, what do you do about it? How do you follow them and how many of these people do go on to MS?   Professor Siva The Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Consortium, we have conducted a study, which was published earlier this year in PLoS ONE and we have collected 451 cases with this syndrome. When they were followed, about 34% developed a neurological event consistent with either CIS or primary progressive MS. This means that about one-third of these people, who receive a diagnosis of radiologically isolated syndrome, in five years’ time, will develop clinical MS. And 10% of this group will develop primary progressive MS, which is very similar to what we see in two clinical cohorts. When statistically you follow these up to ten years and this is statistical, it turns out that around 55% will develop the disease. So at ten years’ time, still half of these people will not develop clinical MS. What does this mean? It is not clear, but on the other side, it seems that some people, who do have radiologically lesions consistent with multiple sclerosis and may continue to get new ones, still will not the clinical disease. We have known this from some autopsy studies started to be published in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, that there were cases, autopsy cases, where people turned out to have changes in their brains consistent with multiple sclerosis, but they never had the disease in their lifetime. We have to consider this subpopulation in both understanding the disease and when we should consider to start treatment, or whether we should really treat all people with MS or not.   MDSF There has been a feeling that you don't treat the image, but you treat the disease, but a lot of these people do go on to get the disease. Is it time for a randomized trial to see if you treat these people, some of them who would statistically go on, will not go on to get the disease?   Professor Siva It is time to start a treatment trial in RIS and our EOS colleagues, mainly Darin Okuda and Daniel Pelletier and Orhun Kantarci will be starting such a study in the U.S. later this year. There is also another probable trial that might start in Europe by Christine Lebrun. Yes we have come to this era, and probably within let's say a few years, we will have more evidence regarding who should be treated or who should not be when they present with RIS.   MDSF In the study that you looked at people for five years, what did you see were some of the risk factors for going on to MS?   Professor Siva There were some clear-cut risk factors and this was, as already shown by Darin and their group in EOS [?] a couple of years ago, having a spinal cord lesion at the time of the RIS diagnosis is a predictive factor to develop MS. Other factors are male gender and younger age; because when we have looked in this RIS cohort of the 450 or so cases, the mean age of diagnosis was 37, which is older than the general mean age that we diagnose MS. So this should be also taught whether this is because we have just by coincidence we get these incidental lesions in some people who will never develop the disease.    MDSF Now this study started a while ago to be able to be published recently. In that amount of time people have been looking at a lot of biomarkers. Did you consider biomarkers at that time? Can you find something that is predictive of going on to MS?   Professor Siva Not yet. Actually this study was a retrospective study, but in part it was prospective because in our center we have been interested in this for more than ten years now, almost 15 years. I should say that in Turkey we have a lot of MRIs and the cost is very low. It is very practical for, let's say general neurologists to refer patients for headaches, for not otherwise you would refer for a MRI, to refer them to MRIs, and then suddenly you started to see this MS looking-like lesions. As we have in MS center, we had a lot of referrals and then we started to follow these people. It’s been more or less the same in the other centers. It is yes, a retrospective data collection, but most of this cohort has been prospectively followed in those centers from the time of their admittance. And your question was whether there was a biomarker other than imaging, not really. Not yet, let's put it that way.   MDSF So is it advisable to follow them with imaging and if so, how often?   Professor Siva It is what we are doing now. There have been some suggested algorithms, but what we do in our center, we ask those patients to have a followup MRI in six months. Then within another six months, unless they develop something clinical, and then if they continue to have changes or not in their MRIs, that depends on how frequently we start to follow them up by MRI. Our tendency is twice for the first six months and then yearly for the next two years and then three years or two years later, unless they develop a clinical event consistent with MS or whatever.   MDSF Necessarily these interval MRIs are really snapshots, even in MS lesions come and go. I suppose it would be possible to miss a lesion that was there and that isn't there at the time of the MRI.   Professor Siva Definitely. But it has been shown, again in our study, that about two-thirds of these people continue to have new MRI lesions, but only one-third of the whole population develop a CIS or other event consistent with MS. Having new lesions doesn't really mean that the risk is much higher. Developing new MRI lesions is not always equal to develop the disease or having a much higher risk. It has been shown by the Queen Square Group many years ago when they have followed people who were admitted with CIS for up to 20 years. Ten to 15 % of these populations who presented with CIS, mostly optic neuritis continued to have new lesions, but they never developed a second clinical attack. It is more or less, I believe, for RIS some of those people will continue to have maybe one or two lesions when you do a followup MRI, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily will develop the disease. Even having positive oligoclonal bands is not a much higher risk by itself.   MDSF It would be quite a burden to treat 100% of the RIS population to be able to avert a progression to MS in about a third or over ten years about 55%. I guess, what you really need to do is be able to figure out who will progress. I guess a subpart of that question is, how do you know, or do you know, who will go on to primary progressive MS?   Professor Siva Well we cannot say this when they don't have any clinical symptoms and signs, because in our center we had three such patients who developed primary progressive MS after a period of four to eight years, when we have followed them radiologically. Probably another question is, whether all primary progressive MSs are really primary progressive, or are let's say secondary progressive MS, the diagnosis was done when they have gone through all of the let's say CIS, relapsing-remitting MS subclinically, and when they have entered in the secondary progressive phase, then, the disease became clinically surfaced and because of this we thought that this was people who were primary progressive. Because when you look at these people and we had those…well the whole group, the RIS we have more such cases, which is now prepared for publication. These people continue to have new lesions and they are not really any different than the relapsing-remitting cases. This is another issue that we should consider.   MDSF So in essence asymptomatic MS might really be MS and what looks like primary progressive is really secondary progressive.   Professor Silva Could be. That is a possibility. If I am not wrong, it was the late Charles Poser who had suggested that a number of MS patients the disease goes subclinically for a certain period of time, but they continue to have axonal degeneration and after a certain threshold they become only clinically symptomatic. It might be an analogy between this view and what we have observed.   MDSF Is there anything important to add on the subject of RIS?   Professor Silva Our approach is on an individual basis. Yes, we do have some evidence, we do have some findings, but that doesn't mean that when you see an individual with RIS they will do how it is expected according to the present evidence. When I am with my patients, or I shouldn't call them patients, but the individuals with RIS, my approach is on an individual basis. If they continue to have new MRI lesions and it is really high T2 load on the MRI, we ask for a CNS study, if they have positive oligoclonal bands, they have but normal visual evoked potentials; they have family members and so on. The way I approach those individuals is a little bit different than someone who has a few lesions, just enough to make a diagnosis of RIS, but don't have really other risk factors, no spinal cord and so on. When it comes to the patients we should make our decisions on an individual basis. I do not treat people RIS, but there might be some exceptions.   MDSF Very good, I appreciate it.   [transition music]   Thank you for listening to Episode Twenty-three of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery. This podcast was produced by the MS Discovery Forum, MSDF, the premier source of independent news and information on MS research. MSDF’s executive editor is Robert Finn. Msdiscovery.org is part of the non-profit Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis. Robert McBurney is our President and CEO, and Hollie Schmidt is Vice President of Scientific Operations.    Msdiscovery.org aims to focus attention on what is known and not yet known about the causes of MS and related conditions, their pathological mechanisms, and potential ways to intervene. By communicating this information in a way that builds bridges among different disciplines, we hope to open new routes toward significant clinical advances.   We’re interested in your opinions. Please join the discussion on one of our online forums or send comments, criticisms, and suggestions to editor@msdiscovery.org.    [outro music]