[This paper explores representations of the aging, predominantly male European body in the Mediterranean in European film and literature. The earliest narrative I consider is that of Michel Houellebecq’s 2005 novel The ...]

[This is a polemical paper about how a city may be perceived in different registers. Istanbul as a bartering piece in peace negotiations, as in the case of Leonard Woolf’s The Future of Constantinople (1917), and Istanbul ...]

[In Masks or Souls, written in Paris in 1937, Turkish author Halide Edib Adıvar makes use of elements of modernist theatre to express her political views. Having been brought up in the metropolis of Istanbul, she spent time ...]

[1997 yılında Boğaziçi Üniversitesi son sınıf öğrencisiydim. Yasakların en son ulaştığı yerlerden biri olan Boğaziçi’nde yaşamın çok fazla değişmediğini hatırlıyorum. Genel yasaklar başlamadan önce derslerine tesettürlü ...]

[This article investigates the ways in which the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi perceived and represented the various political powers and cultural heritages in the Mediterranean, through a reading of his seventeenth-century ...]

[This paper is part of a larger project I am working on, on re-enchantment and melancholia in contemporary narratives. In it, I will focus mainly on two films as emblematic of recent approaches to religion in the global ...]

[Vladimir Nabokov yazın sanatıyla hafızanın aktarımı arasındaki bağa inanan ve kitaplarında buna sürekli dikkat çeken yazarlardan biridir. Üç farklı versiyonu yayımlanmış otobiyografisine verdiği en son isim Konuş, Hafıza’dır. ...]