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Ankara: Turkey guest of honour at Frankfurt Book Fair

usc.edu     Aug 19, 2008          

Turkish Daily News, Turkey Turkey guest of honour at Frankfurt Book Fair Saturday, August 16, 2008 ANKARA ` Turkish Daily News As Turkey is this year's guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, President Abdullah Gül and...                    

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Gillian Reynolds: a Turkish sultan's court is brought vividly to life

telegraph.co.uk     Aug 19, 2008          

Gillian Reynolds on Radio As readers, sub-editors and my children sometimes kindly remind me, not even I always know everything. When I saw that Radio 4's Classic Serial was going to be Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red, I thought I...                    

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"Ghost Train to the Eastern Star": A life-altering journey retraced

nwsource.com     Aug 15, 2008   1 related          

He had seven novels under his belt, including his early masterpieces "Jungle Lovers" and "Saint Jack." "Railway Bazaar" hit the best-seller lists, becoming the first in a series of travel memoirs that readers have lapped up for...                    

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Cover to Cover

interglacial.com     Aug 14, 2008          

Video: "Oil in the Niger Delta" A trailer for Ed Kashi's new photography book Charles Eliot Norton by Linda Dowling (New Hampshire) From his friendships with Emerson and Carlyle to his influence on the Pre-Raphaelite and...                    

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Is Turkey's Problem 'Unreformed Islam'?

thewhitepath.com     Aug 14, 2008   1 related          

Originally published in Turkish Daily News] The judicial coup attempt that Turkey has just barely survived was due to secularism. The “soft coup” of 1998, through which the military overthrew an elected government, was also...                    

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livemint.com: Private worlds: Hasan’s unpublished novel Neti, Neti is in the longlist of the Man Asia Literary Prize, 2008. Photograph: Hemant Mishra / Mint livemint.com

Anjum Hasan / Novelist

livemint.com     Aug 8, 2008          

For Anjum Hasan, author of Lunatic in My Head, the idea of freedom can be consummated in a work of art (or fiction) if it can accommodate an underlying strain of entrapment. The protagonist of Revolutions, a short story that...                    

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Is Turkey's problem 'unreformed Islam'?

turkishdailynews.com.tr     Aug 7, 2008          

only available in modern browsers."); } } Is Turkey's problem 'unreformed Islam'? That much-sought 'reform' will come, when Muslims engage in democracy, capitalism, globalization, and religious freedom Mustafa AKYOL The...                    

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Miroğlu makes open call addressed to Birand for unsolved murders

todayszaman.com     Aug 6, 2008   1 related          

Prominent Kurdish journalist and author Musa Anter was shot dead almost 15 years ago, in September 1992, in Diyarbakır, where he was attending a festival held by the municipal council. Gün” (32nd Day) debate program aired by...                    

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn made history by writing it

iht.com     Aug 4, 2008   3 related          

The legacy of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn serves as a reminder that books can matter as much as life and death. Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday at age 89, never stood before a tank in Tiananmen Square, but novels such...                    

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn made history by writing it

nwsource.com     Aug 4, 2008   330 related          

At a time when government reports ask whether Americans care about reading anymore, the legacy of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn reminds us that books can matter as much as life and death. By HILLEL ITALIE AP National...                    

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