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Tag: Istanbul

15 June, 2022 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

Nektaria Anastasiadou: “Gold in Taksim Square”

The novelist behind "A Recipe for Daphne" returns to multicultural Istanbul to write about love and death amongst the city's minorities.

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23 May, 2022 • İlker Hepkaner

2022 Webby Honoree Documents Queer Turkish Icon

İlker Hepkaner reviews a web documentary on the fascinating trajectory of Turkey's late icon, Zeki Müren.

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15 February, 2022 • Micaela Amateau Amato

Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato

Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.

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7 February, 2022 • Arie Amaya-Akkermans

(G)Hosting the Past: On Michael Rakowitz’s “Reapparitions”

Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq after the American invasion in 2003.

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15 September, 2021 • Nektaria Anastasiadou

The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff

Nektaria Anastasiadou weaves a rich tale of thwarted love between Sephardic and Rum residents of Istanbul.

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14 July, 2021 • Jordan Elgrably

Malak Mattar — Artist and Survivor

TMR's editor Jordan Elgrably talks to young Malak Mattar in Gaza, who has survived massive state violence and begun a promising career in art.

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21 February, 2021 • Rana Haddad

The Hidden World of Istanbul’s Rums

Rana Haddad interviews Istanbullu novelist Nektaria Anastasiadou about the little-known Rum community of Istanbul featured in her new novel.

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15 November, 2020 • Anne-Marie O'Connor

An American in Istanbul Between Muslim and Christian Worlds

Anne-Marie O'Connor reviews A Recipe for Daphne, the debut novel by Nektaria Anastasiadou set in Istanbul's venerable Rum community.

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6 September, 2018 • TMR

Life in the Danger Zone

Interview with Middle East reporter Borzou Daragahi.

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