Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey: Christopher de Bellaigue, Kaya Genç and Suzy Hansen

Christopher de Bellaigue was educated at Cambridge University where he read Iranian and Indian Studies. Between 1995 and 2007, he lived and worked as a journalist in South Asia and the Middle East, writing for The Economist, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books. He is the award-winning author of four books and he made several BCC television and radio programmes.

Kaya Genç is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul. He is the author of Under the Shadow and An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing through the Ages. His writing was picked by The Atlantic for the magazine’s ‘best works of journalism in 2014’ list. Genç’s writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and Paris Review, Believer, the Guardian, the Financial Times and The New York Times.

Suzy Hansen is contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and has written for many other publications. In 2007, she was awarded a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to do research in Turkey. She currently lives in Istanbul. Notes on a Foreign Country is her first book.

Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey:
Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East - caught between the West and ISIS, Syria and Russia and governed by an increasingly forceful leader.Acclaimed writer Kaya Gene: has been covering his country for the past decade. In his book, Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution, he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide: Gezi park protesters who fought tear gas and batons to transform their country's future along with supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan 's conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism. He talks to artists and authors to ask whether the new Turkey is a good place for them to live and work. He interviews censored journalists and conservative writers both angered by what has been going on in their country. He meets Turkey's Wall Street types who take to the streets despite the enormity of what they can lose as well as the young Islamic entrepreneurs who drive Turkey's economy. While chatting to the country's angry young people, Gene: weaves in historical stories, visions and mythologies, showing how Turkey 's progressives and conservatives take their ideological roots from two political movements born in the Ottoman Empire: the Young Turks and the Young Ottomans, two groups of intellectuals who were united in their determination to make their country more democratic. Gene discusses his book with veteran Turkey watcher Christopher de Bellaigue in a discussion chaired by American Istanbul resident and writer, Suzy Hansen.

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