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Zeynep Olgun is a PhD student in History at the University of Cambridge, Newnham College. She graduated from the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU with an Advanced Certificate in Eastern Mediterranean Studies in 2022. Her MA thesis titled " A Sailor's Life for Me: The Middle Byzantine Sailor on Board and at Port" was supervised by Baukje van den Berg and won the EMS best thesis award.

Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul
By Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

M. Brett Wilson (Editor and Translator)

This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

CEMS Best Thesis Award for MA students in the Advanced Certificate Program in Eastern Mediterranean Studies this year goes to Andrei Dumitrescu (Medieval Studies, 2YMA) for his thesis "The Visionary Emperor: Constantine the Great and the Archangel Michael in Late Fifteenth-Century Moldavian Representations," supervised by Prof. Baukje van den Berg.

Congratulations, Andrei :)

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria
The Last Pharaoh and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire

Volker L. Menze