Book contents
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Are Fixers Journalists?
- Elif and José
- Elif and Burcu
- Orhan
- Karim
- Nur and İsmet
- Habib
- The Fixer’s Paradox
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Habib
from Part II - Fitting In
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Are Fixers Journalists?
- Elif and José
- Elif and Burcu
- Orhan
- Karim
- Nur and İsmet
- Habib
- The Fixer’s Paradox
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
For Habib, fixing remained a side hustle to his job as an interpreter for an NGO called Civic Aid that assisted Persian- and Pashto-speaking asylum seekers. He did not think of himself as a journalist or distinguish fixing from other projects in which he functioned as an intercultural broker, as when academics hired him as a research assistant.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 91 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022