The Cultural Perspective and Societal Change
Society is built on institutions; this is an inescapable fact. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, an institution is “a…
Turks
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Married to a Turk?!
“Have you lost your mind?!” Professor Lydia cried as soon as I announced that I had been engaged…
Romania: A Land of Peace
While undertaking a larger study on the biases and commonplaces in Romanian popular history, we encountered several deep-rooted…
An American Muslim in Istanbul
Like so many American Muslims, Istanbul too stands at the crossroads of East and West. My trip to…
Montaigne and the Ottomans
Essays are like flexible rhapsodies.”1 They are freer, arbitrary, and subjective as compared to a more rigid, systematic,…
The Good, and the bad and ugly: Western Cinema Images
The image (rather than the word) has come into power as a result of technological possibilities not available…
Western presentation of the Ottoman Turks
The Turks have never been detached, in Western imagination, from other Islamic nations of the Middle East even…