Holly Shissler, associate professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History at the University of Chicago, on the life and work of Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1844-1912).

Ahmet Mithat is among the most important men of letters in the late Ottoman era. The publisher of the newspaper "Tercuman-i Hakikat", he was also the author of many fictional works including “Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi”, which appeared in an English translation from Syracuse University Press in 2016, and which Shissler wrote an afterword for.

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