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Notes on a Foreign Country

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by Suzy Hansen


  “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)

 

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