Foreign Affairs

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

This collection of 54 articles and reviews appearing over half a century (from 1953 to 2003), plus three pieces never before published, covers a wide range of subjects, arranged under the rubrics ...
The Irish Times

The last of the dragomans: Andrew Ryan, a Cork man in Constaninople

Until the beginning of the 19th century, few Muslims in the Ottoman empire knew any languages other than Ottoman, Persian and Arabic. The Ottomans communicated with Europe through dragomans, whose job ...
NPR

Book Tells of 'Interpreting the Middle East'

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with professor Bernard Lewis about the history of the dragomans — the interpreters in the court of the Ottoman Sultans. As Lewis explains, dragomans did more than translate — ...
The New York Times

A CORPS OF STUDENT DRAGOMANS.; THE BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE IN TURKEY TO BE REORGANIZED THE DRAGOMAN AND CONSULAR SERVICES EVENTUALLY TO BE ...

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NPR

History of the Dragoman Diplomats

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Professor Bernard Lewis about the history of the dragomans, the interpreters in the court of the Ottoman Sultans. As Lewis explains, these translators did more than ...