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Elif Shafak has written essays and articles in
many major international newspaper on various issues...
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January 25, 2007
TIMES - Ode to a Murdered Turkish Editor |
Elif's article in the TIMES on the murder of Turkish
Armenian journalist and friend Hrant Dink
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September 11, 2006
New York Times - Op-ed essay |
WHEN New York was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, I
happened to be in Istanbul, getting ready to go to America. Just as
I turned around a corner on Istiklal Avenue, I overheard a chestnut
vendor cry: “They bombed America!” The man had a tiny radio glued to
his head...
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July 31, 2006
Times - Asia |
East and West are often used as if they were mutually
exclusive categories—static and eternal. There is, however, one city
where you quickly learn to mistrust the two concepts. In Istanbul,
you understand, perhaps not intellectually but intuitively, that
East and West are ultimately imaginary ideas, ones that can be
de-imagined and re-imagined.
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October 6, 2005
Wall Street Journal |
An essay about the "The Struggle That Will Shape
Turkey's Future" seen from both cultural and political point of
view...
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October 3, 2005
Publishers Weekly |
Feature article covering Elif's participation in a
September 25 conference in Istanbul on recognizing the 1915 Armenian
incidents...
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September 25, 2005
Washington Post |
An Op-Ed page essay on the Armenian issue...
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September 2005
Istanbul, Turkey |
Elif participates in a conference in Turkey discussing
the fate of the Ottoman Armenians in the events of 1915 and after... She wrote an article for Washington
Post on this issue...
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August 2005
Istanbul, Turkey |
Elif Shafak participates in a NPR (National Public
Radio) production in Istanbul.
Read more here... |
| June-July 2005 |
After the PEN Conference in New York, New
Perspectives Quarterly prepared a special issue on post-national
literature and interviewed some of the leading voices in this new
genre. Here is Elif Shafak on nationalism, literature and identity.
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May 2005
Berlin, Germany |
The Institute for Advanced Studies is
developing the "West-Eastern Divan" a project for promoting
an understanding of Middle-Eastern literatures in Germany and vice
versa. Elif Shafak has been invited to participate in this project. |
April 16-22, 2005
New York City |
PEN World Voices - Festival of International
Literature
Elif Shafak was invited to participate in a panel discussion on
"Writing in a different language" a panel on "The way We Love Now"
on eroticism in literature. She also read from her novels at an
event at Saint Marks Church in Manhattan.
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April 19, 2005
Boston, MA |
Elif was a speaker at Campagna-Kerven Lecture
Series at Boston University and read from her novel "The Saint
of Incipient Insanities" |
April 15, 2005
New York City |
Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU
255 Sullivan Street, (at Washington Square South) New York, NY 10012
Elif Shafak read from her novel "The Saint Of Incipient Insanities" |
January 21-23, 2005
Hague, The Netherlands |
The Gathering Place Of The Djinni by Elif Shafak
This essay was written for the International Literary Conference in
Holland where Elif was a panelist.
(Winternachten - Internationaal Literatuurfestival Den Haag)
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