A Mind at Peace, translated into English 60 years after its original publication.
On his recent visit to Turkey, President Barack Obama was presented with an English translation of A Mind At Peace, during a meeting with Deniz Baykal, the leader of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party, in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday.
Erdağ Göknar’s translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s 1949 novel, published by Archipelago books in (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies’ inaugural Inaugural Reading List, of books, movies and other works that would deepen our understanding of the cultural, philosophical and historical roots of the critical global issues, has been quite the hit, having been the top story on Duke’s internal news page, Duke Today, on January 28th, as well as a display in (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies recently asked several Duke faculty members to recommend works that they felt would be “good to think with.” We were looking for books, movies and other works that would deepen our understanding of the cultural, philosophical and historical roots of the critical global issues.
Times of crisis bring countless suggestions for fixes. Hundreds of governmental (…)
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