Art of Politics: The Other Face of Serj Tankian
In my last column, I tried to introduce our next guest, but it is not that easy to fit all his roles into a few words. Serj Tankian is a composer, sound engineer, music
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What You Eat
This week’s column, by popular request, will be on cannibalism (the very fact that cannibalism is a frequently requested topic should speak volumes about the sort of company I have). The subject at hand
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Hello, Dear Anakins!
Warning: This column will be quite honest — not that I lie to you at other times, but this one will be more down-to-earth, unlike my other euphoric articles. I’m having one of those
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What’s It Like to Be at Bilkent?
BY NAZ AKYOL (IR/IV) Name: Stefanie Gebele Age: 22 Home Country and Home University: Germany (Berlin) and Maastricht University, Netherlands Department: Political Science (POLS) What was your first Turkish word? It was “ayakkabı,” because
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İstanbul: City of a Hundred Names
This past weekend, I had a chance to go on a trip to İstanbul for the second time this semester. When I talked about my first visit, I said that I wanted to see
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POLITICAL ARTS
Having no more than a handful of articles left to write for Bilkent News, I started thinking about how I began writing here in the first place. As the cliché goes, writing has always
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ORBUS TERRARUM
Please don’t get scared by this very Latin-sounding title — it’s just the third album, released in 1995, by the British band The Orb. My motivation in choosing this album is simply the fact
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