Suzy Hansen
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Her long stay in Istanbul (she's still there) gives her an outsider's vantage on myopic American arrogance that is bracing." -Ann Hulbert, The Atlantic In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the September 2001 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West. Over the course of her many years of...
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