Onur Inal
onurinal.bsky.social
Onur Inal
@onurinal.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, University of Vienna ☕️|Editor-in-Chief @germinate🌱| Middle East and North Africa 🐪| Global History 🌎| Environmental History 🌾| History of Technology 🏗| Animal History 🦋| FC St Pauli supporter 🏴‍☠️| Posts in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇹🇷
FOL Kitap’ın çevre tarihi serisi Samuel Dolbee’nin kitabıyla devam ediyor

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November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Look what I found in my mailbox today! 🤗 🤩 ✨It’s finally real ✨
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Harvest season in the garden 🍋🍊
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It’s autumn in our Mediterranean village near #Izmir #Turkey
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Germinate’s @g-ehr.bsky.social inaugural article is Nancy Jacobs’ presidential address, delivered at the 2025 ASEH conference in Pittsburgh, in three parts, with some fabulous visuals 🦜

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October 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just signed a contract with the @uofupress.bsky.social for the publication of the volume I co-edit with @kmkentel.bsky.social, “Istanbul Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City” 🎊
September 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ottoman leaders took isolated instances of Armenian resistance as evidence of a widespread rebellion to exterminate the Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915. What we observe today in Gaza is quite similar to the systematic destruction of the Ottoman Armenians a century ago.
August 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Now you can pre-order the book with a 20% discount by entering the code INAL2025 at the checkout (valid until 31 December 2025)👇

www.cambridge.org/9781009607261
July 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We have a new article published in the volume “Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure, edited by Stefan Dorondel and Luminita Gatejel👇

“Coping with the River: Nature, Empire, and the Making of the Early Modern Ottoman Danube”
July 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I can finally share the cover of my forthcoming monograph, “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir”

A few more weeks and this thing becomes real:

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June 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
After the Hamburg Zoo was destroyed in an air raid in July 1943, two surviving elephants should be used to clear the rubble. Here the whole story:

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June 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My contribution to Oxford Bibliographies is on the Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa
June 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Page proofs are here! “Gateway to the Mediterranean” is one step closer to launch 😇
May 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
FOL Kitap, şahane bir çevre tarihi serisi başlatıyor. Serinin ilk kitabı, Chris Gratien'in Çukurova’daki sosyo-ekolojik değişimleri konu alan monografisi

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April 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Dale Stahl‘s book has been in the making for a long time. Good to see, it will be out soon👇

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April 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My first and only visit to Stockholm was 19 years ago. Happy to be here after a long time for the “Animals and the Age of Empires: Local Histories and Global Trends” workshop 🇸🇪
April 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Call for Papers: Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of the Ottoman Danubian Frontier, Vienna, 12-13 March 2026

The submission deadline is 31 May 2025

danfront.univie.ac.at/workshop/
March 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
James Gustafson’s long awaited book on the environmental history of Iran is out from IB Tauris. Middle Eastern environmental history is blooming #envhist #iran
February 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Erledigt! #FCKAFD
February 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
✍️ Save the date! On February 18, we will talk about Stefan Peychev‘s upcoming book from Cambridge University Press 👇
January 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Hamburg um 1965. Der Weihnachtsbaum auf der leicht zugefrorenen Binnenalster 🎄

📸 Hugo Schmidt-Luchs
December 25, 2024 at 8:50 PM
One of the oldest museums in Vienna, the Museum of Military History says that “Kriege gehören ins Museum”, wars belong in museums
December 24, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Vienna 2027 is germinating 🌱😉 @robertgro5.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 6:56 PM
John Lennon's Christmas card to girlfriend Cynthia in 1959 💫
December 10, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Sunday activity in Vienna: Globe Museum. It is the only public museum in the world devoted to globes. The oldest item in display is a pair of globes by Mercator (1541 and 1551)
December 8, 2024 at 3:10 PM