The International Chronicles
BY AMNA KARA (MAN/III) Name: Reem Abbas Department: ELIT/I Country of Origin: Yemen What do you like best about Turkey? The weather and the scenery. Fall was absolutely beautiful here, and winter is a
Read More »Coming Full Circle
At the beginning of this semester, I made a small yet profound request of my readers: that we not let the years we spend getting our education go to waste. That was certainly not
Read More »Gilgamesh the Student of Bilkent University
Tablet 1. Introduction There was a student, who used to be very lazy; He wasn’t studying, or doing any activity; He was as poor a student as there was at any Turkish university And
Read More »Black Hippy Movement
In some of my previous columns, I have mentioned that I think we are witnessing the rebirth of socially aware hip-hop and will in the future remember this era as the second wave of
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BY AMNA KARA (MAN/III) Name: Kamila Karimli Department: MAN/III Country of Origin: Azerbaijan What do you like best about Turkey? I would say the different cities with varying traditions, values, landscapes and touristic offerings.
Read More »The Cinematic Prescription
Over the past week, I’ve been sick. Being sick, I had some time to re-watch one of my favorite movies: “Stranger Than Fiction.” In my family, the domination of the living room couch by
Read More »On Youkai
Mizuki Shigeru passed away last week, so I suppose at least some of you saw this column coming—leaving aside his substantial volume of nonfiction work (including “Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths,” a semi-autobiography about
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