Tag: Elif Shafak

July 30, 2025

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Books

Portable Homelands: A Conversation Between Writers

Elif Shafak and Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah speak to belonging, language, and the many meanings of home
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July 23, 2025

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Book Reviews

Merging Stories With Water as a Bonding Element [Book Review]

Elif Shafak takes a walk through ancient Mesopotamia, 19th-century London, and contemporary Iraq to bring us this timeless tale
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January 22, 2025

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Book Reviews

A Fig Tree Recounts History [Book Review]

Star-cross lovers find themselves trapped in a civil war between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus
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November 30, 2024

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Opening Lines

Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 30th

From The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak: “Once upon a memory, at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea, there lay an island so beautiful…”
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