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More Destruction/Development Ahead 20 Aug 2013 | 01:14 pm
I’ve been traveling in Germany with intermittent access to the Internet (but lots of delicious food and wine, although no one can claim Bavarian food is slimming). I wanted to call attention to two go...
Tel Aviv Graffiti 15 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
Photo by Jenny White April 2013
Persistence of Poverty 10 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
Mustafa Sonmez writes in Hurriyet that poverty rates in Turkey are still higher than in the EU despite recent economic improvements. He gives the chart below, while warning that the wealthy are likely...
Ihbar, Haber, and Serendipity: Sliding Into A Police State 9 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
Ihbar means to denounce, to warn and to communicate, a dangerous conflation of meanings that elides the line between getting a neighbor arrested and simply passing on some news. The Arabic-rooted word...
Eid Mubarak – Şeker Bayramınız Kutlu Olsun 8 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
A delicious photo from Denizblog, where you can find an even more creative depiction of sweets (hint: twizzlers!) for the much-awaited holiday that ends the month of fasting. Photo by Deniz Hughes fr...
Still Life: Flowers and Novel 7 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Photo by Jenny White
On Capitol Hill 7 Aug 2013 | 06:04 am
After testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I had a well-earned drink in Union Station with my friend and colleague Sinan Ciddi. I showed off the (water) coaster I had boosted from...
Ergenekon Endgame 5 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
A court is delivering the verdicts one by one in the long-running Ergenekon trial of 270 people, most of them military officers, but also lawyers, academics and journalists, accused of plotting to ove...
Advocating for The High Road in Washington 2 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
Photo from Hurriyet Now that I’m tweeting, Facebooking, and in general traveling about like a dervish, I want to make sure I don’t neglect my blog! There are a number of interesting things happening,...
Daring to Hope 28 Jul 2013 | 07:17 pm
A wonderful article by Alexander Christie-Miller that traces the arc of the Gezi protests from their naive beginnings to a life-changing experience, the politicization of a generation, to the slow str...
