Showing posts with label Ottoman Empire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ottoman Empire. Show all posts
Sunday, November 11, 2018

The Girl from the Golden Horn

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My friend Jen nominated a book I was unfamiliar with for our Istanbook feminist book club, and it became my biggest guilty pleasure read of...
Monday, January 12, 2015

"Midnight at the Pera Palace" with the Istanbul Global Minds Book Club

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If ever there was a book that was a perfect match for my Istanbul "Global Minds Book Club" it is this one: "Midnight at the...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Back in print from 100 years ago - Turkish and American women reflecting on their cross-cultural experience

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I came across this marvelous book series "Cultures in Dialogue" the other day, and wished I could park myself down immediate...
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Friday, May 23, 2014

A Fete for Fulbrights and Friends

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 My Turkish Breakfast If someone were to ask me what I did this last weekend, I could only reply "have breakfast." Besides the ...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

#EnSonNeOkudun What are you reading lately?

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If one stays in a country long enough as an expat, it's easy to see places where one could contribute. Turkey recently had its 90th an...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Turks and their Hammams - a couple stories of how they use them

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Recently, I enjoyed my first Istanbul hammam at Çirağan Palace Kempinski , the famous Ottoman Imperial Palace hotel on the Bosphorus, which...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Part Two of My First Istanbul Hammam Adventure at Çirağan Palace Kempinski Hotel

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The hammam at Cirağan Palace Kempinski There are some discoveries in Turkey that are so delightful, they bring the immediate thought, “wh...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

My first Hammam in Istanbul at the Çirağan Palace Kempinski Hotel, Part One

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Çirağan Palace Kempinski in the snow In my new Beşiktaş neighborhood in Istanbul, not five minutes from my house, is the only Ottoman ...
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