Writing with the Mediterranean in the Twentieth Century: The Advent of the Fisherman of Halicarnassus

Eyüp Özveren is a professor in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. During the 1980s, he was a research associate at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at the State University of New York Binghamton, where he received a doctorate in sociology in 1990. He teaches Mediterranean cinema and literature in the master's program in media and cultural studies at METU. His interests are the history of ideas, and economic and social history. The author of numerous publications on Mediterranean studies, he is currently writing a book on the twentieth-century Turkish Mediterraneanist writer, Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, known as the Fisherman of Halicarnassus.