Travels Through a Lost Empire
Klappentext:Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago – and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital, relevant and surprising.
Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers among Erdoğan supporters in Serbia, Druze Sheikhs in Lebanon, refugees in Lesbos and Armenian descendants in Jerusalem, befor returning to her family's roots in Cyprus. Her enlightening, often funny journey shows that diversity is the enduring endangered heart fo this fascinating region.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and a British father. She studied Classics at Oxford before working in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera. In 2011 she moved to Istanbul, where she taught Latin at the Bosphorus University. Her first book, Turkish Awakening, was published in 2014. Alev writes for numerous publications, including the Guardian. Her second book, Ottoman Odyssey, was hotlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2019; her third book is Power & the People, written with Andronike Makres. She lives in Athens and London.
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