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
- Noah
- Between Worlds
- Orhan
- Nur
- Karim
- Habib
- Elif
- Order and Chaos
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Orhan
from Part I - Beginnings
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
- Noah
- Between Worlds
- Orhan
- Nur
- Karim
- Habib
- Elif
- Order and Chaos
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I often met Orhan at a bustling coffee shop in Beşiktaş, a secularist-leftist enclave on Istanbul’s European side. He called the café his office. Our conversations were continually interrupted by his acquaintances stopping in for a coffee or passing on the street, but he seemed to thrive in the chaos. Orhan was in his late 30s when I got to know him, a decade and a half older than me and much cooler, dressed most days in a rock concert tee-shirt and ripped jeans.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 17 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022