"Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey"
This compilation of real-life stories, edited by Istanbul residents Anastasia Ashman and Jennifer Eaton, who...
Strange Intimacies/Tuhaf Yakinliklar (edited by Hatice Guleryuz for 9th International Istanbul Biennial) "THEN AND NOW" essay
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Piled on the lobby radiator by the mailman ignoring the numbered boxes on the wall, bills and bank statements and birthday cards slip to the floor and underfoot. Delivered but disrespected. A folded newspaper is wedged in door’s iron grating. Who in this hip building reads Zaman, the conservative paper?
About Anastasia
A native of Berkeley, California with 14 years abroad in three countries, I'm a cultural writer/producer on a global rollercoaster:
fired in Hollywood,
abandoned on a snake-infested island off Borneo,
married in an Ottoman palace,
interviewed by...
Published Reviews
Feb.13.2008
Tales from the Expat Harem, edited by Anastasia Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gokmen (Seal Press, 2006)
Follow the journeys of 29 women as they discover Turkey and its people in...
Note from the author coming soon...