Imagine Istanbul

Istanbul Writing

Imagine — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:53:36 +0000

It’s been a while since I last did any Istanbul writing, but I’ve been far away, writing about other things. Life becomes busy and you sort of forget a place though it lingers and haunts the mind as a kind of old ghost. I’ve been writing about other things far removed from the [...]

Imagine Istanbul - One Year as a Blog

Imagine — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:29:06 +0000

It’s been a year since I turned Imagine Istanbul into a blog format. But if you’ve been a regular reader, you would know that my site about the search for the little boy of Istanbul has been around since 2004. I also lost the domain name for one year because it expired, I [...]

Istanbul Photography

Imagine — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:41:30 +0000

You might remember me writing about an Istanbul photography contest a while back run by an artists’ organization, Les Arts Turcs in Istanbul. That photography contest is now closed and the winning photographs have been decided by a jury. I’ve had a look at the winning photographs and the photographers and I thought I should [...]

Istanbul

Imagine — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:30:55 +0000

As you may have noticed, I haven’t written about Istanbul for a long time. You are probably wondering why I haven’t written about my most favorite place in the world. Did I forget about Istanbul? Did I fall out of love with Istanbul? Did I forget about the little boy of [...]

Yeşim Ustaoğlu’s Pandora’s Box - Pandoranin Kutusu

Imagine — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:29:03 +0000

In my previous posting I described my disappointment at not being able to obtain tickets to see Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film “Three Monkeys” so instead, I bought tickets for another Turkish film of which I knew absolutely nothing called Pandora’s Box. Sometimes, we find a little treasure unexpectedly and what a jewel of a [...]