Notes on a Foreign Country
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“American Century” (Luce)
Amin, Galal
Amrikanli (Ibrahim)
Anatolia
Andreas Papandreou Foundation
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Ankara
Another Country (Baldwin)
anti-Semitism
Antonius, George
Arabs
Arab Spring
Arbenz, Jacobo
Argentina
Arif (Afghan fixer)
Armenia
Aslı
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal
Athens
Auerbach, Erich
Aydın
Baghdad
Baghdad Pact (1979)
Bagh-e Babur (Babur Gardens)
Bagram Air Force Base
bakkal (market)
Baldwin, James
Balgat
Bandung Conference (1955)
Banna, Hassan al-
Barbarism in Greece (Becket)
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
Bebek
Becket, James
behvarzan (community health workers)
Bellaigue, Christopher de
Bend in the River, A (Naipaul)
Benedict XVI, Pope
Benjamin, Walter
Bennett, Eric
Beyoğlu
Bilal (bakkal worker)
Bill, James A.
Bingöl
bin Laden, Osama
Birand, Mehmet Ali
Black Book, The (Pamuk)
Black Sea
Blackwater (company)
Bliss, Howard
Blood-Dark Track (O’Neill)
Bloody Sunday (1969)
Blue Mosque
Boğaziçi University
Bolivia
Bosnia
Bosphorus
Bozdoğan, Sibel
Brand, Russell
Brando, Marlon
Brazil
Brecht, Bertolt
Bretton Woods Conference (1944)
Brides on Tour
Brown v. Board of Education
Buckley, William F., Jr.
Bülent (Turkish guide)
Bush, George W.
Business Group for Latin America
Byzantine Empire
Cairo
Calvino, Italo
Camp David Accords (1978)
Camp Eggers
Camus, Albert
Caner (Turkish-Kurdish friend)
“capacity building”
“capitalist imperialism”
Cappadocia
çarşaflar (sheets)
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
“celebrity complex”
Center for International Studies (CIS)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cezzar, Engin
Chile
China
Christianity
Cihangir neighborhood
Cities of Salt (Munif)
civil rights movement
Civil War, U.S.
“clash of civilizations”
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Coca-Cola
Cold War
colonialism
Committee, The (Ibrahim)
communism
Congo
Constantinople
Cox, Claudia
Crane, Charles
Cuba
Cumhuriyet
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
Danforth, Nicholas
Dangerous Citizens (Panourgia)
Defense Department, U.S.
de Gaulle, Charles
DeLillo, Don
Del Monte
Democratic Party
Democrat Party
Denmark
Dersim Massacre (1937)
Dev-Genç
Dhahran
DHKP/C
Diem, Ngo Dinh
Dink, Hrant
DİSK
Dittmer, John
Dolmabahçe Palace
Dominican Republic
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dower, John
Dubai International Airport
Dulles, John Foster
Duvalier, François “Papa Doc”
Ecevit, Bülent
Economist, The
Editor & Publisher
Egypt
Eikenberry, Karl
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ekbladh, David
Eligür, Banu
Ellison, Ralph
Emre (young Turkish man)
Encounter
Enlightenment (Freely)
Erbakan, Necmettin
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
Ergenekon trial
Ertegün, Münir
Erzurum
Euphrates River
Europe; see also specific countries
European Union (EU)
Evers, Medgar
Evren, Kenan
Eynez mine
Facebook
falaka (torture)
fascism
Fattah, Alaa Abd El-
Faulkner, William
Faust, Drew Gilpin
feminism
fez (headwear)
Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin)
fırın
Fisk, Pliny
Flower Street Café
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968
Forrestal, James
Fort Benning
Fortune
Fortune and Men’s Eyes (Herbert)
Fox News
France
Frankfurt School
Freely, John
Freely, Maureen
Fulbright, J. William
Galata
Gallipoli, Battle of
Gandamack Lodge
Garcia, Jerry
Gates, Bill
Gazi Mahallesi
Gebze
gecekondu (slums)
Geertz, Clifford
Geiger, Jack
Genç, Kaya
genocide
Germany
Gezari, Vanessa
Gezi Park
Gilded Age
Gilman, Nils
Gingrich, Newt
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin)
Global (company)
Global Minotaur, The (Varoufakis)
Gökalp, Ziya
Gökçen, Sabiha
Golden Horn
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing)
gold standard
Gopal, Anand
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gore, Al
Görüş, Milli
Grand Bazaar
Grandin, Greg
Gray Wolves
Great Britain
Great Depression
Greece; civil war in; debt crisis of; military dictatorship (junta) of; Parliament of; U.S. relations with
Grigoropoulos, Alexis
gross domestic product (GDP)
Guardian, The
Guatemala
Gül, Abdullah
Gülen, Fethullah
Gülenists
Gulf War
Gümüşsuyu neighborhood
Güngören bombing
Hadi, Amal Abdel
Hagia Sophia
Haiti
Halberstam, David
Hamid, Mohsin
Hapgood, David
Harper’s Magazine
Hassan, Farkhonda
hava (atmosphere; weather)
Haykal, Muhammad
Hazırcevap
head scarves
Head Start
Heliopolis neighborhood
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson-Camara, Eva
Henze, Paul
Herbert, John
Hersey, John
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Herzstein, Robert
Hezbollah
Hilton, Conrad
Hilton Hotels
Hiroshima (Hersey)
Hiroshima bombing (1945)
Hispanics
Hitler, Adolf
Hittites
Holmes, Amy Austin
Holocaust
homosexuality
“How a Genuine Democracy Should Celebrate Its Past” (Dower)
Huggins, Regina
Human Terrain System (HTS)
Hunt, Michael
Huntington, Samuel
Hurricane Katrina
Hürriyet
Hussein, Saddam
Hutchins, Robert M.
hüzün (melancholy)
Iason
Iatrides, John O.
Ibrahim, Sonallah
İdiz, Semih
imam-hatip schools
Imralı
Inayatullah
Incirlik Air Base
India
Indonesia
inkilap (revolution)
İnönü, İsmet
Inside the Company (Agee)
Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA)
Inter-American Development Bank
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Press Freedom conference
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Iowa, University of, Writers’ Workshop
Iran
Iran hostage crisis
Iran-Iraq War
Iraq
Iraq War
İrfan (bakkal worker)
Islam: Alevi; fundamentalism in; imams of; jihad in; mosques of; sharia law of; Shia; Sunni; Wahhabi; women in
Islamic State (ISIS)
Israel
Istanbul
Istanbul (Pamuk)
Istanbullus (Istanbul residents)
Istanbul Metro
İstiklal Caddesi
Italy
Jackson Medical Mall
Jacobs, Jane
James, Henry
James, William
James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade (Zaborowska)
jandarma (military police)
Japan
Jefferson, Thomas
Jews
Joel, Billy
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Joint American Military Mission for Aid to Turkey (JAMMAT)
Judt, Tony
kabadayı (tough guys)
Kabul
Kabul Dreams
Kadıköy neighborhood
Kahramanmaraş
“Kalashnikov culture”
Kalyvas, Stathis
Kandahar Air Force Base
Kandil, Hazem
Kangals
Kaplan, Peter
Kapuściński, Ryszard
Karachi, Pakistan
Karaköy
Karataş, Murat
Karousos, Tzavalas
Karzai, Hamid
Kasımpaşa neighborhood
Kayrakaltı
Kazan, Elia
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Kemah
Kemal, Yaşar
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
Kenyon Review, The
Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khuzestan
King, Henry Churchill
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King-Crane Commission
Kissinger, Henry
Klimataria taverna
köfte (meatball)
Köfteci Ramiz
Komer, Robert
Koran
Korean War
Kortun, Vasıf
Küçük Türkiye (Little Turkey)
Ku Klux KIan (KKK)
künefe
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Kurds
Laçiner, Sedat
laicism
Lale Plak record shop
Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan
Latin America; see also specific countries
Lawrence, D. H.
Lear, Jonathan
Lears, Jackson
Le Corbusier
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Lerner, Daniel
Leslie, Jolyon
Lessing, Doris
“Letters to Uncle Sam” (Manto)
Lewinsky, Monica
Lewis, Bernard
Lieven, Anatol
Life magazine
Lincoln, Abraham
Linyit Otel
“Little Americas”
Louis Berger Group
Luce, Henry
Lumumba, Patrice
Lurie, Alison
MacVeagh, Lincoln
mahalle baskısı (neighborhood pressure)
mahalleler
Makdisi, Ussama
Malaparte, Curzio
Malek, Hassan
Mandarins of the Future (Gilman)
Manela, Erez
Mango, Andrew
Mann, Thomas
Mantle of the Prophet, The (Mottahedeh)
Manto, Saadat
Mardin, Şerif
Marineo, Giuseppina Pasqualino di (Pippa Bacca)
Marmara Hotel
Márquez, Gabriel García
Marshall, Mamie
Marshall Plan
Marton, Kati
Marxism
Massoud, Ahmed Shah
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthy, Mary
McChrystal, Stanley
McEnroe, John
McInerney, Jay
McKinley, William
Medicaid
Mehmet the Conqueror
Melville, Herman
Menderes, Adnan
Merton, Thomas
mescit
Metaxas, Ioannis
Mexico
meyhane
Middle East; see also specific countries
Middle East Technical University
Milliyet
Mind at Peace, A (Tanpınar)
Mir, Pedro
Mishra, Pankaj
Mississippi
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Missouri, USS
Mitchell, Timothy
Modernism and Nation Building
Mohandeseen neighborhood
Moore, Terry
Moro, Silvia
Mossad
Mossadegh, Mohammad
Mottahedeh, Roy
Mount Lebanon
Mubarak, Hosni
Mubarak, Suzanne
muezzin
Muhittin, Nezihe
mujahideen
mullahs
Munif, Abdelrahman
Murrow, Edward
Museum of Innocence, The (Pamuk)
Muslim Brotherhood
Mussolini, Benito
müsteminler (aliens)
My Lai massacre (1968)
Naaman, Mara
Nader, Ralph
Nagasaki bombing (1945)
Naipaul, V. S.
nakba
Nakşibendi brotherhood
Names, The (DeLillo)
napalm
Naples
nargile
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Council for Women
National Student Association
Native Americans
Nazism
Nehru, Jawaharlal
neoliberalism
New Deal
New York, N.Y.
New Yorker, The
New York Observer, The
New York Times, The
New York Times Magazine, The
New York World-Telegram
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Night Draws Near (Shadid)
Nimr, Faris
Nişantaşı neighborhood
Nixon, Richard M.
Nobody Knows My Name (Baldwin)
Nokta
Non-Aligned Movement
No Name in the Stree
t (Baldwin)
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
Noriega, Manuel
North, Oliver
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Northrop (company)
Nur brotherhood
Obama, Barack
Obamacare
Occupy Wall Street
Offe, Claus
oğretmen evi (teachers’ house)
Okmeydanı neighborhood
Olga (Greek friend)
Omar, Qais Akbar
O’Neill, Joseph
Onion, The
Operation Phoenix
Orientalism
Ortaylı, İlber
Orwell, George
Ottoman Empire
Özal, Turgut
Özkök, Ertuğrul
Pakay, Sedat
Pakistan
Palestine
Palin, Sarah
Pamuk, Orhan
Panourgia, Neni
Papandreou, Andreas
Papandreou, George
Papandreou, Georgios
Papandreou, Nick
Parsons, Levi
Paşa, Ahmet Vefik
PASOK
Passing of Traditional Society, The (Lerner)
Paz, Octavio
peçe (cloth)
Pennsylvania, University of
Petraeus, David
Peurifoy, John
Philippines
Picturing America exhibition
Piketty, Thomas
Pocket Guide to Turkey, A
Polk, George
Polonezköy
“poppy palaces”
“positive neutrality”
Princes’ Islands
Production of Modernization, The (Shah)
proportional representation
Pye, Lucian
Qutb, Sayyid
Rabin, Yitzhak
Rabitat
Radio Free Europe
rakı
Ramadan
Rana
rape
Reagan, Ronald
“red imperialism”
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The (Mohsin)
Republican National Convention (2004)
Republican Party
Republic of Suffering, The (Faust)
Rich; Frank
Riesman, David
Rıza (Turkish miner)
Robert College
Rockefeller, David
Rojava, Syria
Roosevelt, Kermit
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rostow, Walt
Rumeli Hisarı fortress
Rwanda
Saadawi, Nawal El
Sadat, Anwar
sahaflar (secondhand book stalls)
Said, Edward
Salaam, Yusef
Salafis
Salt art space
Sarruf, Yaqub
Saudi Arabia
Saunders, Frances Stonor
SAVAK
Saylan, Türkan
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schmitz, David
School of the Americas
Sea of Marmara
Selçuk türbe (tomb)
September 11 attacks (2001)
Serena Hotel
Serter, Nur
Shadid, Anthony
Shah, Hemant
Shahbazi, Mohammad
Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shakespeare, William
shalwar kameez
Shamsie, Kamila
Shirer, William
Shirley, Aaron, Dr.
“Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell)
Siegfried, André
Şimdi coffee shop
simit (Turkish bagel)
Simone, Nina
Sinai
Siret-i Nebi Congress (1976)
site (upscale suburb)
Sixth Fleet, U.S.
Skin, The (Malaparte)
Smith-Mundt Act (1948)