The politics of fiction | Elif Shafak
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Published 2010-07-19
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All Comments (21)
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I wish there was a love button on YouTube - this woman is amazing!
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Being a Greek and listening to this guzel woman so wise and so witty I feel that I love Turkey for creating such a creative creature. Such a positive energy...
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The way that she relates different topics and melts them in a pot with an understanding, rational way is great! I am going read her books.
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Just finished 40 rules of love. I’m crying. Watching her speech is making me cry more. Thank you Elif you are wonderful
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“Come, let us be friends for once; let us make life easy on us; let us be lovers and loved ones; the earth shall be left to no one.” Stories bring us together and connect us. She is using her stories to hug and to love all people. She is great. She has a brilliant mind. She is presenting Turkish culture in the best way. She is very successful with her own identity or characteristics.
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She gave an inspiring speech. I strongly believe she is what she says she is. She is a great representative of Humanity, women, Turkey and Turkish culture, Islam and PEACE. The past is over, all nations of the world has a "DIRTY PAST". We should stop blaming of each other for the past but plant the beautiful, righteous, fruitful plants so our offspring can have love for one another instead of animosity. Turks, Greeks, Arabs, Japanese, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and others.
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I've just finished reading her "Forty rules of love" and have to say that was more than a book.. Now I certainly know that there are still some people around the world who share my views and feelings.. She is definitely on my TO PERSONALLY MEET ONE DAY list !!!
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This is the beauty of an open mind. Deep!
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Yes! As a South African woman, I feel the exact same pressure she does. I am often seen as the representative of a group rather than an individual.
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She is undescribable! She is an amazing woman, a marvelous author and a Great person!
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the forty Rules of Love ... Elif Shafak is the best novelist in Turkey. Among the giants of world novel literature with Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Tolstoy, Márquez and others. Shafak approach is closer to Tolstoy's method of adopting just causes and working to enlighten and confront governments and not to involve high towers and revolution on the current conditions and strive for the best.
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This is my first time listening to Elif talk. She is so interesting. I read her novel The Bastard Of Istanbul, the one she talked about, and it was fabulous. I enjoyed it very much. I love how she is so neutral in her book. She has all these different characters, different cultures and religions, and all she does is tell their story. No bias. No preference. Narrating their feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
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this author is making me more of a spiritual man. just read 40 rules of love.
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Come, " let us be friends for once, let us make life easier on earth, let us be the lovers and loved ones the earth shall be left to no one! #sufism ❤ #elifshafak ❤ so blessed to have this !!!!!!!!
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Agree 100% with everything she says, and...shallow as it may be for me to say, she is preternaturally beautiful. I'll have to read her books.
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I started reading for Elif Şafak at 2014 and I just fall in love with her style and her books .. Respect from Morocco ♡
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woah ! Her speech rasonates in me deeply ! Thank You Elif Shafak ! Much Love from a cambodian living in Germany 🥰🥰🥰💚💜💛
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I just came here to see her after reading forty rules of love and three daughters of eve and I am not disappointed ♥️keep writing for us👍
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God, is she an angel?
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I'm deeply impressed by this speech! I wish to know your secret and then embrace it in order to get out of the circle of fear and cowardice.
