About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Bonn, GermanyTwitter
Turkey Archive
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Cyrus on: PRI’s The World (June 28, 2010)
Posted on June 29, 2010 | 1 CommentSevgili Dostlar, My piece on the Mesut Özil and modern Turkish-Germans aired on The World yesterday. In it, I interview Prof. Dr. Claudia Riehl of the University of Cologne, Susanne von Würzen (thanks, Courtney!), Mehmet Aydan (thanks, Begum!), and Cem Özdemir. Also, don’t forget my... -
A View of the Bosporus
Posted on September 29, 2007 | No CommentsPico Iyer on Orhan Pamuk: Pamuk has two enduring loves: books and Istanbul. Often they converge as his journeys through his hometown come to resemble excursions through memory itself. Like Proust, Pamuk has spent decades of his life — 15,300 days, he calculates — in... -
Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize!
Posted on October 12, 2006 | 4 CommentsI can’t think of anyone more deserving of this prize. As he wrote in the International Herald Tribune earlier this year: It is because all writers have a deep desire to be authentic that even after all these years I still love to be asked... -
Round 1 of Photos from Turkey
Posted on October 28, 2005 | No CommentsThese are some photos from the first few days in Istanbul. More coming soon. -
Random String of Unrelated Things
Posted on October 27, 2005 | 5 CommentsMy buddy, the badass printer/artist Noah Breuer has one of his works on the home page of the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. He’s now getting his MFA at Columbia. If you’re in NYC, go check out his stuff. (Previous post on Noah’s work.)... -
Quick Turkey Post at 1:30 am Paris Time
Posted on October 25, 2005 | 6 CommentsTurkey is awesome. Especially awesome to see it with a couple of Columbia buddies of mine who have set up shop as journos in Istanbul — one at the Turkish Daily News and one at the Associated Press. Quick recap before I hit the sack... -
greetings from anatolia
Posted on October 21, 2005 | No CommentsI’m in neveshir in central turkey. We arrived in ankara by train and then a 3 hr bus further. We’re staying with the uncle of a co-worker of a friend of a co-worker of my aunt heidi’s. Go figure, huh? they don’t speak much english... -
“A Turkish County Fair”
Posted on October 16, 2005 | 2 CommentsSo I made it. Rebekah and I found Engin, (my aunt’s colleague’s best friend), who is an Istanbul native. He graciously picked us up from the airport, took us to his house a few miles from the airport and brought us to his family’s apartment....
