Alev Scott

Turkish Awakening

Behind the Scenes of Modern Turkey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the European buzz of modern-day Constantinople to the Arabic-speaking towns of the south-east, this book investigates mass migration, urbanisation and economics in a country moving swiftly towards a new position on the world stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• New upd. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780571296583
• ISBN-10: 0571296580
• Artikelnr.: 41597061

Autorenporträt

§Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and a British father. She was educated at North London Collegiate School and New College, Oxford, where she studied Classics.
After graduating in 2009, she worked in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera before moving to Istanbul in January 2011, where she taught Latin at the Bosphorus University.
She now works as a freelance journalist for the British press§

Rezensionen

In a colourful survey of a complex, often paradoxical country on the cusp of social and cultural change, Scott is an open-minded, fresh-eyed reporter. Iain Finlayson The Times