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HISTORY AND CULTURE
Video: Ebru Marbeling
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/452851/art_on_the_water_art_of_marbling_ebru_sanati_birlikde_ay
rili/
A video representation of traditional Ebru marbling is used to create art with non-traditional subjects,
such as people.
Islamic Art: Early Ottoman Art
http://www.discoverislamicart.org/exhibitions/ISL/the_ottomans/?lng=en
From humble origins as a small emirate in Northwest Anatolia, the Ottomans rose to become one of
the greatest Islamic empires in history…Although its roots were in Anatolia, and it drew inspiration
from sources as disparate as the cultures the empire had subsumed, the art of the Ottomans was in a
very large part devised in and disseminated from the imperial-court workshops in Istanbul.
New York Times Modern Women Artists in Turkey Meet Their Trailblazing Counterparts
(12/14/2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/europe/modern-women-artists-in-<strong>turkey</strong>-meet-theirtrailblazing-counterparts.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=36%20hours%20in%20istanbul&st=cse
“Dream and Reality”, a show at the Istanbul Modern art museum, pairs “nearly forgotten” painters
from the Ottoman era with some of the most intriguing artists in Turkey today. The common thread?
All are women.
Arabic Calligraphy
http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphy/index.html
While many religions have made use of figural images to convey their core convictions, Islam has
instead used the shapes and sizes of words or letters. In Islamic and Arabic cultures, calligraphy became
a highly respected art—the art of writing.
LITERATURE
Turkish Literature
http://www.turkishculture.org/pages.php?ChildID=715&ParentID=3&ID=4&ChildID1=473&miMore=1#P
ageContent
The history of Turkish Literature may be divided into three periods, reflecting the history of Turkish
civilization as follows: the period up to the adoption of Islam, the Islamic period, and the period under
Western influence.
Author Spotlight: Orhan Pamuk
http://www.orhanpamuk.net/
Orhan Pamuk is a noted novelist born in Istanbul in 1952 who recently won the Nobel Prize in
Literature. His novel My Name is Red, has been translated into twenty-four languages and won
international literature’s most lucrative prize (excluding the Nobel), the IMPAC Dublin Award, in 2003.
My Turkish Library (12/18, 2008)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22182
In this New York Review of Books article, Nobel-prize winner Orhan Pamuk reflects on his library of
books and what various authors and their writings mean to him.
World Affairs Council Resource Packet: What the Rest of the World can Learn from Turkey Today – March 20, 2012 36