Review: Who Will Help Me Make Iftar? by Asmaa Hussein and Saliha Çalışkan (Türkiye) I have been...
The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya/China)
I first came across The Dragonfly Sea shortly after it was published in 2019. It attracted my...
Review: Ayesha Dean – The Istanbul Intrigue by Melati Lum (Australia/Turkey)
While picture books and YA novels by Muslim writers have proliferated in recent years, the...
Mini-ep. What if the Good Old Days were not all good?
On this journey, I question the way we look at Islamic history. - Do we glorify past nations too...
Thoughts: Reading Before Travelling + Istanbul Photo Diary
Whenever I'm going to visit somewhere new, I like to try and learn about the culture, history and...
Podcast: Mini-Ep. Turkey: The Birds Have Also Gone by Yashar Kemal
I recently visited Istanbul and before I went I wanted to find a novel that would give me some...
Ep. 3. Turkey: Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
On this journey: How we process what we read, Never judge a book by its blurb, Our country is our...
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