Turkish TV drama “Elif,” about a young girl hiding from an evil stepfather, will be remade in an Indonesian version by local national broadcaster Surya Citra Televisi (SCTV), in another sign that ...

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Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

We are acting as if we have no memory. It's just pure collective amnesia that I find very worrying. In 2003 we've seen the statues of Saddam being toppled down and hailed as a big revolution. And ...

In this episode of arts24, Eve Jackson sits down with one of the most celebrated British-Turkish novelists of our time, Elif Shafak. With over 20 books translated into more than 50 languages, Shafak ...

Turkish-British writer-activist Elif Shafak presents a hauntingly beautiful novel, "The Island of Missing Trees" (Bloomsbury), involving a pair of young lovers – one Turkish, one Greek – who are ...