Melaike Hüseyin
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"İRS - Heritage" Azerbaijani Journal of History, Anthropology and Culture
PhD, Doctor of Humanities in History
Philologist. Orientalist. Translator.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Obtained PhD in History at the University of Warsaw (Poland) in December 2024, MA in Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw in 2012 and a Bachelor degree in Philology, Polish Language and Literature from the Ankara University DTCF(Türkiye) in 2001.
Her research interests are conflict studies, social history of women, cultural and national identity aspects of the history of Azerbaijan, poetry and orientalist painting.
She is also an author of analytical articles published by news agencies in Türkiye and Azerbaijan, being a translator of Czesław Miłosz, Maksim Gorki, Anton Chekhov, Russian poets to Turkish language as well as Turkish poets to Russian language.
- Member of the editorial board of ATSC The Azerbaijani Society of History and Genealogy since 2025
- Member of The Polish Oriental Society since 2013
- From 1990 to 2000 she took private lessons of painting regularly with renowned painters Semion Süleyman Stamatov and Yaşar Çallı
Languages: Azerbaijani, English, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish
Supervisors: Prof dr hab. Jerzy Grzybowski
"İRS - Heritage" Azerbaijani Journal of History, Anthropology and Culture
PhD, Doctor of Humanities in History
Philologist. Orientalist. Translator.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Obtained PhD in History at the University of Warsaw (Poland) in December 2024, MA in Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw in 2012 and a Bachelor degree in Philology, Polish Language and Literature from the Ankara University DTCF(Türkiye) in 2001.
Her research interests are conflict studies, social history of women, cultural and national identity aspects of the history of Azerbaijan, poetry and orientalist painting.
She is also an author of analytical articles published by news agencies in Türkiye and Azerbaijan, being a translator of Czesław Miłosz, Maksim Gorki, Anton Chekhov, Russian poets to Turkish language as well as Turkish poets to Russian language.
- Member of the editorial board of ATSC The Azerbaijani Society of History and Genealogy since 2025
- Member of The Polish Oriental Society since 2013
- From 1990 to 2000 she took private lessons of painting regularly with renowned painters Semion Süleyman Stamatov and Yaşar Çallı
Languages: Azerbaijani, English, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish
Supervisors: Prof dr hab. Jerzy Grzybowski
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Thesis Chapters by Melaike Hüseyin
Orientalist painting. Formed on the grounds of popularity of the East, this dissertation
attempts to present significant stages of the process of Orientalism formation in art.
Furthermore, the thesis defines the term, historical development of this trend in art in Europe
and Turkey, concentrates on particularities of certain ways of depiction of woman images by
chosen European artists. Disputable subject as it is, the image of an Eastern woman, and the
Turkish woman of today, bears all evident traces of those controversial stereotypes that were
formed during the rise of Orientalism in 19th century. The study attempts to provide the details
related to the aspects of woman portraiture specified with some examples. In this context, the
way Turkish woman was perceived and pictured is interpreted and treated with direct explicit.