Weekend Reading: Fact and Fiction in Libya, a Saudi in Iran, and “Turkishness”
Valentina Viene reviews the struggle to fictionalize the enigmatic persona of Muammar al-Qaddafi, the former leader of Libya, in Yasmina Khadra’s latest novel, The Dictator’s Last Night.
Sara Masry, in her last blog post, reflects on her time in Iran as a foreign student from Saudi Arabia after the diplomatic freeze between the two countries prevents her from returning to Tehran to finish her studies.
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Nick Danforth discusses the contentions between “Turkishness” and multiculturalism in today’s Turkey.
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