Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through TurkeyDundurn, 2007 - 240 halaman For millennia, the land now called Turkey has been at the crossroads of history. A bridge between Europe and Asia, between West and East, between Christianity and Islam, the peninsula also known as Anatolia, the place where the sun rises, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions on the planet. In this unique blend of memoir and travel literature, Ãoestün Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country, whisking the reader on a journey through time, memory, and space. She searches deep into the roots of her own ancestry and uncovers a family secret, breaks taboos in a nation that still takes tradition very seriously, and navigates through dangerous territory that sees her investigating brothels in Ankara, probing honour murders in Sanliurfa, encountering Kurds in the remote southeast, and witnessing the rape of the earth by a gold mining company in Bergama. |
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... Islam. The descendants of a tribal chief named Seljuk formed the first Islamic Turkish empire, which extended from Central Asia all the way to Anatolia. I try to imagine the chaos that prevailed in medieval Anatolia.Vassal princes ...
... Islamic empire. In the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, the capital and bastion of Orthodox Christianity, was a disaster for medieval Christendom. The story of the siege and fall of Constantinople is one of such heroism and ...
... Islamic caliphate, adopted the Latin alphabet, and set Turkish women free of chadors. The grateful nation gave him the name Atatürk, Father Turk. As the sirens start to fade, I think about the hopeful young republic born of the tattered ...
... Islamic empire was an awe- some task. He accomplished it with astonishing diplomacy and grace, and with surprisingly little violence. My parents weep when they talk about the sense of hope and purpose that filled this country during the ...
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Mam Kubileya Mountain Mother | 33 |
Gilded lcons Wrapped in Fine Cloth | 99 |
Deadly Honzur | 179 |
The Curse Dionysos | 197 |
Memory ls for People | 213 |
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Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |