Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors ... a major exhibition devoted to Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004), celebrates a pioneering artist whose versatility and resolve enabled her to break new ground in both Türkiye and Europe. The exhibition brings together her expansive body of work – spanning the performing arts, visual arts, cinema,

Although called the Princes' Islands, named as being a place of exile for unwanted heirs apparent, I know it for the exile of Byzantine queens and empresses who are favoured in John Ash's account (cf. After Ash). The great English poet who lived and drank in İstanbul

good morning İstanbul! Günaydın! stashed our luggage at the Hilton and headed out to the flea market minutes from it. The ladies, by Maurice Sendak, pictured above prepared gözleme with spinach and feta. Inspired, I contemplated restarting my typewriter collection and other aberrations, like a good flea market should. I

I am hoping to catch up to historic events along our trajectory from KSA to Oman, before the war, even Egypt, a post about which I have started, after months . . . to current events. Today is International Women's Day in İstanbul. The police are out in force bearing arms

yes this is before the war, the area Juffair, الجفير, on reclaimed land, it had been a US dormitory area, hotels, for the base ... and grew. More was as Jalal said re-landed. Jo headed back to Riyadh, accompanied on the plane by: I waited on my visa, with the

this morning, Viktor Frankl's lost lectures on the meaning of life caught my eye at The Marginalian—marginalia on the search for meaning. A review by Maria Popova of lectures originally given in German, for the first time translated into English, under the sensational title of Yes to