#  CMES: The Time of Mute Swans: Remembering as a Cure for Global Political Plague 

 



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 **November 28, 2017** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

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**The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar** presents [Ece Temelkuran](http://www.ecetemelkuran.com/en/books/women-who-blow-on-knots/)  
Turkish political commentator, journalist, and author

 Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and author. She was a columnist for *Milliyet* (2000–2009) and *Habertürk* (2009 – January 2012), and a presenter on *Habertürk TV* (2010–2011). She was twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist". Her columns have also been published in international media such as *The Guardian* and *Le Monde Diplomatique*. A graduate of Ankara University's Faculty of Law, she has published 12 books, including two published in English (*Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide*, Verso 2010, and *Book of the Edge*, BOA Editions 2010). *Deep Mountain* was written in 2008 when she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Her first novel, *Muz Sesleri* (*Banana Sounds*), was published in 2010 and has been translated into Arabic and Polish; and her bibliography includes *Ne Anlatayım Ben Sana!* (*What am I Going to Tell You!*, Everest, 2006), on hunger strikes by Turkish political prisoners. She was awarded the Human Rights Association of "Turkey's Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award" in 2008.

 Her more recent publications include: [Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy](http://www.ecetemelkuran.com/en/books/turkey-the-insane-and-the-melancholy/) (2016), and [Women Who Blow On Knots](http://www.ecetemelkuran.com/en/books/women-who-blow-on-knots/) (May, 2017)

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)

 See also: [Turkey](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/research-region/turkey), [Government](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/research-field/government), [Literature](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/research-field/literature), [WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/eventseries/me-seminar), [2017-18](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/academic-year/2017-18)



 

 



 

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