Empty Nest Expat

My City of Joy movie posse, Ladies from Global Minds and Istanbook book clubs here in Istanbul What a powerful evening last night...

Ozgecan Aslan Last week, a bright, beautiful 20-year-old Turkish university student named Ozgecan Aslan was the last person on her s...

"Everyday Five Women Are Killed through Domestic Violence" Yesterday was so delightful. The enormity of Eve Ensler's ima...

Today is the big day! Eve Ensler, the creator of the Vagina Monologues (which has raised $80 million for domestic violence charities gl...

Today brings the sad news that the Turkish police have found the body of American tourist Sarai Sierra , 33, from New York City. May she res...

I didn't get to blog as much as I wanted last year because I devoted many hours of my time to learning Turkish. Still, I increased my nu...

Looking back on my participation in "The Vagina Monologues," I can not be more proud of myself for having done it. Eve Ensler is t...

Manal Al-Sharif A woman with the simple demand: I need to drive in my daily life.  Before coming to Little Rock, I had ...

Istanbul cast of the 2012 English-language version of "The Vagina Monologues"  What a delight it was to gather one last ti...

Some of our fabulous cast for "The Vagina Monologues" Pictured left to right: Tara, Demet, Yasemin, me, Monique, Harika, and Kendr...

Great movements often start in coffee shops. Vaclav Havel famously met with his fellow Czech dissidents in the Cafe Slavia across from the N...