Jennifer Hattam reflects on a decade-and-a-half of reporting on Turkey’s environmental, political and cultural agenda, as well as wrenching changes in journalism and staying afloat amid Istanbul’s relentless urban upheaval.
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Dec 2021
Keeping the faith in the Middle East with Janine di Giovanni
Journalist and author Janine di Giovanni's over the past 30 years has seen her report from the frontlines of some of the most complex and turbulent stories of our times, including the siege of Sarajevo and both the Srebrenica and Rwandan genocides. Her new book, The Vanishing, fo ... Show More
44m 33s
Sep 2023
Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
Pallavi Narayan's book Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City (Routledge, 2022) reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how the city has shaped the writings of Pamuk and has, in turn, be ... Show More
52m 6s
Apr 2023
«L’alphabet du silence», un roman sur la Turquie contemporaine
C’est un récit qui n’est exempt ni de colère, ni d’amour. Delphine Minoui est correspondante du journal « Le Figaro » en Turquie. Elle vit à Istanbul et s’appuie sur cette ville cosmopolite pour dérouler un texte qui évoque tout à la fois la question kurde, la liberté d’expressio ... Show More
19m 30s