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Excited for new book and some adventures in an old Oxford debating club
My new novel “Şehir” is out in the world this week! And some impressions on the Oxford Union debate about the demise of the Ottoman Empire
Nov 30, 2025
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Tezer Özlü essay and Pakistan event
Notes before a flight
Oct 1, 2025
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The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey, and Syria’s resilient tech workers
Celebrating my fifteenth year as an “English-language author” with new essays in Foreign Policy and Rest of World
Aug 16, 2025
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How we broke the Istanbul Biennial story
Aug 30, 2023
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The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey, and Syria’s resilient tech workers
Aug 16, 2025
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The Story Unfolds in Istanbul and other publications
Feb 2, 2025
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100 Days Later
Jul 2, 2025
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March madness, April apathy
Apr 20, 2025
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On films and Turkey
Sep 23, 2024
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100 Days Later
Notes from my travels and writings
Jul 2, 2025
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How should we live in Erdoğan's Turkey and Trump's America?
The author Kaya Genç is the most compelling chronicler of Istanbul and Turkey of our times. We talked about his country, and the U.S.A. under Trump.
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May 24, 2025
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March madness, April apathy
Some updates from the past five weeks in Turkey
Apr 20, 2025
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California trip, AI trainers and Turkish translators
A new piece for Rest of World on how AI companies recruit Turkey’s elite translators; and some impressions from UC Irvine’s Forum for the Academy and…
Feb 23, 2025
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The Story Unfolds in Istanbul and other publications
Contribution to a new art book, upcoming events in the US and more
Feb 2, 2025
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“Open to all the sounds, colors, and vibrations of the universe”
My first essay in Foreign Policy; new reporting for The Lancet; and a MUBI “fantasy double feature”
Dec 25, 2024
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Photographing Turkey’s Dispossessed
An Aperture essay on Cansu Yıldıran; new events at University of California Irvine and Northwestern; and an essay on Oğuz Atay, my first literary idol
Dec 18, 2024
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Kaya Genç’s Substack: essays on culture, literature, politics and contemporary art from Turkey
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