Summer, Istanbul
Summer August 2020 to be exact, when we rented an apartment close to the Museum of Innocence in the neighbourhood of Cihangir. A world onto itself and pretty – so…
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Love – Five Years On
Each spring as I notice the little buds pushing forth their flowers I’m reminded of my own grand escape. That moment when something in me snapped and in the words…
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Istanbul / Fener Nights
In 2017, with my life in ruins, I returned to Istanbul to take up a teaching position at the university. With the help of a colleague I rented a flat…
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Istanbul / A Taste of Home
You never know when you are going to need to be restart your life. The only thing that is predictable about life is that it’s unpredictable and although change can…
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The Mansion on a Hill
This heavy rain reminds me of the night I got off the bus at Fener Balat with another young woman. It had been raining and I remember feeling surprised to…
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Arrivals & Departures
When I first arrived in Istanbul in September 2018 I wrote… Istanbul would this time be a love story. Not between me and another but between me and the city.…
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On Language & Seeing
This morning I came across an interesting article in Brain Pickings about the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot, the dual power of language and what it really means to see. Language,…
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