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    Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Seal Women's Travel) (Paperback) Edited by Anastasia M. Ashman, Edited by Jennifer Eaton Gokmen

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    Short Description for Tales from the Expat HaremPresents an anthology on being female expats in a Muslim country, and how the Turkish landscape, psyche, people, and customs have transformed their lives. This work provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations, who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure.
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  • This is a timely anthology on being female expats in a Muslim country - and how the Turkish landscape, psyche, people, and customs have transformed their lives. As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, "Tales from the Expat Harem" reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different nations - artists, entrepreneurs, Peace Corps volunteers, archaeologists, missionaries, and others - who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure. Poignant, humorous, and transcendent, the essays take readers to weddings and workplaces, down cobbled Byzantine streets, into boisterous bazaars along the Silk Road, and deep into the feminine stronghold of steamy Ottoman bathhouses. The outcome is a stunning collection of voices from women suspended between two homes as they redefine their identities and reshape their worldviews.