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Tales from the Expat Harem, February 2006
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Tales from the Expat Harem, February 2006
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TALES FROM THE EXPAT HAREM
By: Anastasia M. Ashman, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen

Foreign Women in Modern Turkey

Seal Press
February 2006
On Sale: February 1, 2006
300 pages
ISBN: 1580051553
EAN: 9781580051552
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations—artists, entrepreneurs, Peace Corps volunteers, archaeologists, missionaries, and others—who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure. Through narrative essays covering the last four decades, these diverse women unveil the mystique of the “Orient,” describe religious conflict, embrace cultural discovery, and maneuver familial traditions, customs, and responsibilities. Poignant, humorous, and transcendent, the essays take readers to weddings and workplaces, down cobbled Byzantine streets, into boisterous bazaars along the Silk Road, and deep into the feminine stronghold of steamy Ottoman bathhouses. The outcome is a stunning collection of voices from women suspended between two homes as they redefine their identities and reshape their worldviews

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