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A feature interview in Guardian UK - Elif Shafak: Motherhood
is sacred in Turkey - see it here...
10 Questions with Elif Shafak: an interview on
Goodreads.com -
see it here...
BBC The World Service - The Forum.
Project Syndicate - Confused by the Veil - 2007
Times Magazine - Ode to a Murdered Turkish Editor
- January 25, 2007
Elif's article in the TIMES on the murder of Turkish
Armenian journalist and friend Hrant Dink
New York Times - Op-ed essay - September 11, 2006
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...
Times - Asia - July 31, 2006
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.
Istanbul, Turkey - August 2005
Elif Shafak participates in a NPR (National Public
Radio) production in Istanbul.
Read more here...
New York City - April 16-22, 2005
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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