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Interview: Özge Samancı on her graphic novel; Dare To Disappoint, Growing up in Turkey

Some people are damn good with words! You experience similar things, but they happen to have the knack for interpreting your feelings when your words would fall short. Özge Samancı is one of those people gifted with story telling. I could have finished...

the women’s museum istanbul

When I first came across The Women's Museum Istanbul online last year, I got so excited that I set the date to visit the museum the next day! Unfortunately, it turned out that it did not have a venue yet. Never mind in a world, where established concepts...

Byzantium: A tale of 3 cities

Writing the monograph of a city is never an easy task, I am sure. even more difficult if the city is Istanbul, once known as Byzantium or Constantinople. The historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore takes on such a challenge trying to squeeze so much into...

Street Art #7 Kadıköy

YELDEĞIRMENI GRAFFITI FESTIVAL Mural Ist, organized by Kadıköy Municipality and the Foundation for Protection and Promotion of Environmental and Cultural Values, ÇEKÜL, left Yeldeğirmeni neighborhood in colors this fall. Together with the local...

Revisiting the City: Credits

With my first photography exhibition entitled Revisiting the City, I aimed to explore my home city through different lenses and from different angles and introduce you to our home once again. the photos and texts I compiled from my blog question the possibility...

Street art # 5 Cihangir

A mish mash of street art in Cihangir... "Love of men kills 3 women every day." Statistics say so. The unofficial number is probably much higher.

Resistanbul diaries # 4 Protesting a la Turca

CONFESSIONS OF A BLOGGER...Up until two months ago, I spent my life bragging about my being creative. The creativity inherent even in seemingly trivial things such as wrapping gifts or dressing the salad. I had a good eye for details, or for good bargains,...

Resistanbul diaries # 3 Food for Thought

What you see is a mist of gas, what I feel is a burn on my skin. With the rush of adrenalin, we all would like to think we have a higher threshold for any mysterious substance sprayed on us, but in the end, we all start crying, coughing or vomiting....