Multi-Centric Modernity

An investigation into how the West appropriated Eastern innovation while labeling the East as outside of history.

A synthesis of historical reality over Western myth, advocating for a history written from below.

Deconstructing the contradictory slogans of Western enlightenment used to mask economic exploitation.

Examining the transfer of Turkish Red and sal ammoniac production from Egyptian artisans to European scientists.

How the French textile industry was built on the systematic copying of Ottoman and Indian craftsmanship.

Analyzing the Eurocentric narrative that erased Ottoman Egypt’s role in global modernity through intellectual theft.