Snapshots of Contested Istanbul is an openly licensed website featuring blog articles written by first-year students in Dr. Jeannette Okur’s UGS 303 Contested Istanbul course(s) at the University of Texas at Austin. The website introduces a general audience to places, people, events, concepts, objects, and artistic representations that are key to understanding Istanbul’s historical and contemporary culture/s. The site’s content is freely available online under a CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED license to any university or individuals who wish to use or adapt it.
Snapshots of Contested Istanbul was developed by Dr. Jeannette Okur, with the assistance of Special Programs Associate Tyus Welter, and published by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
