From Cumhuriyet, January 21, 1956 He would certainly have made an impression on the Dino brothers when they first met him in Adana in the early 1940s. Abidin and Arif Dino were urbanites, art…| Reuben Silverman
Before he was a famous left-wing literary figure—and long before he was found murdered in a forest along the Turkish-Bulgarian border—Sabahattin Ali was a frustrated teacher, appointed to positions in the provinces, far from his country’s cultural centers. During the school year of 1927/28, when he was just twenty-one years old, he was assigned to […]| Reuben Silverman
I am a graduate student at the University of Washington. I tend to focus on Turkey, but I am interested, more generally, in the wider world. I am particularly interested in food, culture, and other…| Reuben Silverman
Like westerns in the US or samurai films in Japan, the efe film genre in Turkey drew on a past, partly real, partly mythologized, to create stories that resonated with movie-goers during the 1950s …| Reuben Silverman