“No one would ever know that there were times when water ran thicker than blood”

to wear a headscarf, but she treated her body as if it were a mannequin she could shape and dress and paint to her heart's content.”

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'Auntie' Binnaz

Bitter Ma

D/Ali

Haroun (Baba)

Hollywood Humeyra

Jameelah

Tequila Leila

Nostalgia Nalan

Sabotage Sinan

Suzan

Tarkan

Uncle

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Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize

Caravan Award for Peacebuilding Through the Arts

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division (The School of Life)

The Architect's Apprentice

Honour

The Forty Rules of Love

The Bastard of Istanbul

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Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless

Chosen Family

This Loving-Kindness Meditation is a Radical Act of Love

Loving kindness for ourselves and others

The evil eye

Tossing the umbilical cord

Consciousness after death

Cemetery of the Companionless'

Bosphorus Bridge

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Persepolis

Survival of Consciousness after Death with Dr. Edward Kelly

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