#  The Time of Mute Swans: Remembering as a Cure for Global Political Plague 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 28, 2017** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar** presents

 Ece Temelkuran

   ![The Time of Mute Swans](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/screen_shot_2017-11-08_at_1.30.11_pm.png?itok=ZaJ4l9ac) 

 

  
Turkish political commentator, journalist, and author One of Turkey's best-known novelist and political commentators, Ece Temelkuran was a prominent investigative journalist before her controversial explorations of Kurdish and Armenian issues and her criticism of the current regime led to her dismissal. The author of the nonfictions works *Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy* and *Deep Mountain: Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide*, she has been a visiting fellow at Oxford and delivered the Freedom Lecture as a guest of Amnesty International and the Prince Claus Fund. In the United States, she has contributed op-eds and articles to the *New York Times,* the *Guardians, Literary Hub,* and *Bookforum*, and was a featured panelist a the 2017 Women in the World Summit. Her books have been published in nineteen countries. She lives in Istanbul and Zagreb.

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

 See also:- [ WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar ](/eventseries/me-seminar)
- [ Government ](/research-field/government)
- [ Literature ](/research-field/literature)
- [ Turkey ](/research-region/turkey)
- [ 2017-18 ](/academic-year/2017-18)
 
 

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