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Literature Takes Courage: on Ahmet Altan’s Lady Life

Literature Takes Courage: on Ahmet Altan’s Lady Life

In and out of Turkish prisons for his unflinching political essays, Ahmet Altan returns with a new novella...

JULY 24, 2023 • By Kaya Genç
Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

Musical Artists at Work: Naïssam Jalal, Fazil Say & Azu Tiwaline

Sarah Naili interviews musical artists who meld eastern and western instruments, and forms, to create their unique sounds...

JULY 17, 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
The Ghost of Gezi Park—Turkey 10 Years On

The Ghost of Gezi Park—Turkey 10 Years On

An art critic comments on the 10th anniversary of the Gezi Park protests with an overview of a...

JUNE 19, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Deniz Goran’s New Novel Contrasts Art and the Gezi Park Protests

Deniz Goran’s New Novel Contrasts Art and the Gezi Park Protests

A novel about "toxic authoritarianism" and how it has shaped the lives of countless young persons in Turkey,...

JUNE 19, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Niki, Prize-Winning Greek Novel, Captures the Country’s Civil War

Niki, Prize-Winning Greek Novel, Captures the Country’s Civil War

Nektaria Anastasiadou reviews the newly-translated novel from Christos Chomenidis, which won the Greek National Book Award.

JUNE 12, 2023 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Turkey’s Earthquake as a Generational Disaster

Turkey’s Earthquake as a Generational Disaster

Sanem Su Avci looks at this year's destructive temblor and asks where can man go when he's being...

JUNE 4, 2023 • By Sanem Su Avci
Zara Houshmand, Moon and Sun

Zara Houshmand, Moon and Sun

Writer, editor and literary translator Zara Houshmand presents her new book of Rumi translations, Moon and Sun.

JUNE 4, 2023 • By Zara Houshmand
The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story

The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the film of a migrant story set in Greece that has just been nominated for...

MAY 8, 2023 • By Iason Athanasiadis
Beautiful Ghosts, or We’ll Always Have Istanbul

Beautiful Ghosts, or We’ll Always Have Istanbul

Looking for love and her father's past, a Turkish American journalist haunts the streets of Istanbul before and...

MARCH 27, 2023 • By Alicia Kismet Eler
For Those Who Dwell in Tents, Home is Temporal—Or Is It?

For Those Who Dwell in Tents, Home is Temporal—Or Is It?

Home is increasingly an elusive quality in an era of war, climate disaster, economic collapse and family misfortune.

MARCH 5, 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
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