The first time  I  heard the poem, the City by Cavafy in Greek, we were in an outdoor restaurant by the Golden Horn watching the glimmering lights of the old town, and Fener in the distance -the formerly Greek quarter, where the Greek Orthodox...
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 THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCEFinally 10 years after Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel Laureate started writing the story of Kemal and Füsun, the museum, which bears the same name as the book, opened. Right after its opening, a symposium...
 CEREMONY AT SAINT-BENOITI am at one of the oldest educational institutions in the city, Saint-Benoit. Two of my beloved students are graduating today.  SB ranks one of the distinguished foreign schools, whose medium of instruction is French. As might...
If you happen to pay a visit to the charming  Emirgan neighborhood in the middle part of the Bosphorus, you will see a fountain surrounded by a hundred-year old colossal maple trees. Commissioned by the Sultan Abdulhamid I and dedicated to one of his wives,...
"When Istanbullus grow a bit older and feel their fates intertwining with that of the city, they come to welcome the cloak of melancholy that brings their lives a contentment, an emotional depth, that almost look like happiness. Until then they rage against...