Iggy and Fyodor, meet your [Turkish] match! Joseph Flaherty examines Turkish-American writer Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot, as well as her other projects
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Right Said Sait
Rakı days, rock and roll nights: Alex Dawe looks back on the life and times of the late Turkish writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık and what the Turkish literati had to say about him
Telecasters and Tahdig
REORIENT Editor Joobin Bekhrad opens up to Iranian-American rock and roller Salar Rajabnik about his writing, rock and roll, and his newly released book, Coming Down Again
Wild is the Wind
In search of the world’s oldest windmills, Jippe Kreuning - the son of a Dutch miller - embarks on a journey to Khorasan in northeastern Iran, along with a Persian phrasebook
Madonna in a Fur Coat
What relevance does a novel written over 70 years ago by a mysteriously murdered author have to contemporary Turkey? Lydia Beardmore takes a look at Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat.
REORIENT Radio - Marjane Satrapi
Listen to Joobin Bekhrad crack up as he talks to the acclaimed Iranian artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi for the fourth episode of REORIENT’s podcast series
Native
Sarah Aziza chats with acclaimed Hebrew-language author Sayed Kashua about the Arab-Israeli experience and his latest book, Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life
Face-Off
Aysha Khan examines the effacement of the female voice in the literary traditions of the Persianate world, from the days of the Mughals to the present
Beneath the Snow
Joseph Flaherty travels to the remote border city of Kars in eastern Turkey to investigate the continued relevance and importance of Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed novel, Snow
Dear Armen
Beyond gender and genocide: decades after her passing, the story of Armen Ohanian - the ‘Dancer of Shamahka’ - has inspired a new generation of Armenian artists