After seven years in this heavily visited megalopolis, I even the score on what not to do in Istanbul.
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Ring my bell
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, harem, identity, society, women, tagged Art is Dialogue, Asia, California, Catherine Salter Bayar, Catherine Yigit, China, citizen of the world, creative expression, Czech Republic, Dialogue2010, discussion series, dual citizenship, Dutchwoman, Elmira Bayrasli, Europe, expat+HAREM, global citizen, global nomad, Holland, hybrid life, hybrid self, Italy, Jocelyn Eikenburg, Judith van Praag, Karen Armstrong Quartarone, kindred spirit, location independent, mapping, Netherlands, New York, Pacific Northwest, Rose Deniz, Sezin Koehler, Tara Lutman Agacayak, Third Culture Kid, Turkey, United Nations, Washington, writing on March 2, 2010 | 27 Comments »
What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?
What expat bloggers are made of
Posted in culture, history, identity, memoir, society, women, tagged art, artist, best-of lists, blog, blogger, Bulgarian, Canakkale, Catherine Yigit, Cindy King, cross-cultural, exile, expat, expat+HAREM, expatriate, foreign, gender role, immigrant, international, Izmit, Petya Kirilova Grady, provenance, review, Rose Deniz, Sea of Marmara, SheWrites, Tennessee, Turkey on January 18, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Expat bloggers flourish when we face a fresh appreciation for who we are, where we come from — and what we’re made of.
The twinge of heritage
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, history, identity, tagged arugula, Baltic, Berkeley, borscht, comfort food, Eastern Europe, ethnic, harem, heritage, immigration, Istanbul, Italy, lineage, Lithuania, Mediterranean, New World, Northern California, Ottoman, regional, Spam, synchronicity, Turkey, turkey burger, wanderlust on November 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
After four generations of immigration, a New World woman find the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust: ghost urges from genes and culture long ago severed.
expat+HAREM: blooming behind closed doors
Posted in culture, identity, society, tagged anthology, collaboration, crossroads, culturati, culture, expat, ExpatHarem.com, expatriate, global citizen, global niche, global nomad, globalism, hybrid, identity adventurer, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen, liminality, multicultural, nationalism, neoculture, regionality, stereotype, threshold, tradition, travel, Turkey, Turkophile, virtual community on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The (softly) relaunched ExpatHarem.com domain aims to bring a virtual community of cultural peers to life online as a neoculture hub for global citizens and identity adventurers as well as travelers, culturati and Turkophiles.
The expat divide
Posted in American culture, culture, identity, society, women, tagged digital divide, editor, epublishing, expat, expatriate, expatriatism, global niche, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, market, Multimedia Supercorridor, Turkey, writing on September 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Expatriatism is often a life apart. So how does a writer abroad get up to speed and compete in her home market?
Decomposing self
Posted in culture, history, identity, women, tagged anthology, Asia, boundaries, continuum, culture, equator, expat harem, global nomad, Indonesia, Jane Robinson, Malaysia, mores, regionality, sense of self, Southeast Asia, travel, Turkey, Unsuitable for Ladies, Wayward Women, Western, women, writers on July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
life abroad can test our sense of self. realizing we’re part of a travel continuum can restore it.
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