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Celebrating in Istanbul - Come as you are!

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:55:14 +0100

Sunday evening, 10 o clock in the evening: I am watering a handful of rice, some chick peas, a glass of crashed wheat, and some beans (in short: everything I could find on the kitchen shelf ...). The mix will soak over night, and tomorrow I will cook it together with loads of sugar, nuts, dried fruits, like figs and apricot, I some fresh fruits, too – pomegranate and orange respectively, and – very important – rose water! What for all this?

by Kristina Kamp

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Nov.

nospam@example.com (Refik Anadol) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:52:37 +0100

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Istanbul: On the Intermingling of Fashion and Politics

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:52:21 +0200

'Long gone are the days when distinct or traditional clothing made our cultures recognizable' ??? Not when it comes to Turkey! Istanbul provides ground for a case study: The headscarf – an expression of culture? Of religion? A political symbol? … Fashion??? An everlasting topic in any case.

Kristina Kamp

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Does money make people happy?

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:52:15 +0200

Istanbul'ian Ugur, Jusuf, Fatos, and Dilek explain what they think about 'Cents and Sensibilities' ...

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Memory

nospam@example.com (Refik Anadol) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:01:38 +0200

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Istanbul: Fragments of Culture (s)

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:39:32 +0200

Mhhhhhmmmm...

What to write about 'culture' in my city? The sociologist inside me is confused. (Well, that's her job.) Culture ... what does the term actually mean?

Kristina Kamp

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Trial

nospam@example.com (Refik Anadol) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:08:00 +0200

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Who are we?

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:56:56 +0200

Who are 'we'? And who are 'they'?

Tomorrow, on June 12, the country will flock to the bullet boxes again and - no doubt! - the fault lines run deep in this country.

by Kristina Kamp

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Previewing

nospam@example.com (Refik Anadol) — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:22:31 +0200

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Istanbul – Destroy it, and build it up again?!

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:14:05 +0200

In fact, summing up Istanbul's treasury of cultural and historic variety is unmanageable. Starting from the big historical empires – Byzantine, Roman, and Ottoman – over the multitude of minorities more or less influential during Ottoman times – namely Greeks, Armenians, French, Germans, Genoese, Levantines, Spanish and Sephardic Jews – to all those uncountable ethnic groups (Kurds, Laz, Syrians, Pomaks, Zaza, Roma ..) and immigrants (Africans, Arabs, Eastern European and Asian people) which found their way to the city in more recent times … They all shaped it, they all left their footsteps in terms of specific lifestyles, architecture, spiritual places and cultural festivities.

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Istanbul – Or who is the trashiest?!

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:26:53 +0200

Trash, waste, rubbish … when discussing this month's topic with a friend we could not help ourselves thinking that this article must necessarily result in cliches: Side boards overloaded with rubbish; empty bottles and leftovers in the streets, plastics, paper and other industrial waste in the backyards … Is it really like that in our city?
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Bin/Space

nospam@example.com (Refik Anadol) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:55:49 +0200

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Istanbul: Prudish, or just schizophrenic?

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:44:41 +0100

Wednesday morning, breakfast time: I quickly skim through the first pages of my beloved tabloid paper “Posta” ... passing by the crime scenes ... leaving the high society section behind … Yep .. there it is, my favorite good morning lecture: Page 14 – solely devoted to love, relationship problems and sexuality ...

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Istanbul - Delay

nospam@example.com (Refik Anadol) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0100

Going local in Istanbul?!

nospam@example.com (Kristina Kamp ) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:16:33 +0100

And before you can say knife another month is over again ... Hard to believe, but it has already been more than five weeks that I occupied my small island home for the first time. 'Home' – it already feels like that! Renovation finished so far and I dutifully established routine life again, i.e. sitting and writing my thesis.

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