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11 February 2024 at the Medem Centre The Song of songs has inspired so many readings and interpretations throughout the ages. This talk by François Ardeven, Chairman of the Medem Centre’s Culture Committee, will attempt to answer the secrets and questions surrounding the text, which is based on Henri Meschonic’s translation of the Five Scrolls, published by Gallimard. But also on ...
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In the nineteenth century, the villages along the Bosporus sheltered numerous “minorities” -Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. Swallowed up today by the great metropolis, Ortaköy, Arnavutköy, Bebek, Yeniköy, and others have become sought-after residential areas with interesting traces of this Jewish past, most noticeably in Ortaköy. On the hills and beyond extend the elegant new ...
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Lying atop a hill dominating the Bosporus to the north of the Golden Horn, the “European city” of Pera grew up in the middle of the nineteenth century. A place where earlier one could find the shop counters of Genoese merchants, the architecture of Beyoglu, as the Turks call it, is western. Its grand structures such as the covered passages recall those of Paris, London, or Berlin. ...
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