Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel, Nights of Plague, is set on a fictitious island called Mingheria, the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire, located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. In 1901, following the order of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, a steamer carrying an eminent Ottoman delegation consisting of various Ottoman officials entrusted with mitigating political animosity between China’s Muslims ... (read more)
Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam
Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam is a PhD candidate in literary studies at the University of New South Wales. His peer-reviewed articles, co-authored with Amanda Laugesen, have been published in the Journal of Translation Studies and The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. His current research focuses on literary studies, literary theory and criticism, and comparative and world literature.