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L’Atelier de Théâtre Français Celebrates 10th Anniversary With “Variations”
This year, L’Atelier de Théâtre Français (the French Theater Club) at Bilkent is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion, students from the Department of Translation and Interpretation staged their 10th annual show
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How & Where They Write: Ioannis Grigoriadis
BY ALP RODOPLU (HIST/MA) Alp Rodoplu: Do you enjoy writing? Ioannis Grigoriadis: I do. Writing brings our ideas and our intellectual struggles into existence. We give shape to what we think through writing, and
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“Illusionist” by COMD Instructor Portrays Sermet Erkin; First Screening on Campus This Thursday
The film “Illusionist,” produced and directed by Communication and Design instructor Kağan Olguntürk, will have its first screening on April 17 at 5:30 p.m. in room FFB-22 of the FADA building. The film is
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Little Did We Know
Writing fiction is unbelievably fun, so much so that I can’t stop myself from getting animated, jumping on chairs and tables, laughing and being amazed at an idea that has just popped up in
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A Couple of Words on Autism
I do not write often about genetics—as well I shouldn’t, since this is a column for general audiences, and genetics is one of the most jargon-infested fields out there (that, and I am not
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Why Music Reviewing Matters
I was inspired to write such a column when I watched an hour-long panel from SXSW 2014 about the relevance of music reviewing, in which two of my favorite reviewers, Anthony Fantano and Myke
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Bilkent Book Fest 2014
Last week, Bilkent’s Main Campus hosted the second Bilkent Book Festival, organized by the Bilkent Literature Society. The Society prefers calling the event a book “festival” rather than a “fair,” because it includes workshops
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