Tales from the Expat Harem
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| Author | Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen |
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| Language | English & Turkish |
| Subject | Travel |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Seal Press & Doğan Kitap |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | United States & Turkey |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-58005-155-3 & ISBN 975-293-381-5 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| OCLC | 61285623 |
| 956.104/086/91 22 | |
| LC Class | DR432 .T29 2006 |
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Template:Lang-tr) is a nonfiction anthology by 32 expatriate women from seven nations and five continents about their lives in modern Turkey, published by Seal Press in North America (2006, ISBN 1-58005-155-3) and Doğan Kitap in Turkey (2005, ISBN 975-293-381-5 Turkish edition, ISBN 975-293-372-6 English edition).
Edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, two American writers based in Istanbul, it was an English language #1 national bestseller in Turkey in January 2006[citation needed]. Its Turkish edition, Türkçe Sevmek: Türkiye'de Yaşayan Yabancı Kadınların Gözüyle Türkler, contains a foreword written by the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
In May 2008, the book and its editors were featured on NBC's Today, on its occasional travel segment Where in the World is Matt Lauer?[1]
Contributing Writers
| Amanda Coffin | Erica Kaya | Nancy Lunsford |
| Ana Carolina Fletes | Eveline Zoutendijk | Natalie Baker |
| Anastasia M. Ashman | Jennifer Eaton Gokmen | Pat Yale |
| Annie Prior Ozsarac | Jessica Lutz | Rhonda Vander Sluis |
| Catherine Salter Bayar | Karen-Claire Voss | Sally Green |
| Catherine Yigit | Katherine Belliel | Susan Fleming Holm |
| Claire Uhr | Kathleen Hamilton Gundogdu | Tanala OsaYande |
| Dana Gonzalez | Louise Ruskin | Trici Venola |
| Dena Sukaya | Mahira Afridi-Perese | Valerie Tasiran |
| Diane Caldwell | Maria Yarbrough Orhon | Wendy Fox |
| Eppie Lunsford | Maureen Basedow |
External links
- 2006 books
- English non-fiction literature
- Essay collections
- Travel books
- Cultural studies books
- Autobiographies
- Anthropology books
- Harem
- Ethnographic literature
- Sociology books
- Gender studies books
- Feminist books
- Arts in Turkey
- Turkish literature
- Turkish society
- Tourism in Turkey
- Culture in Istanbul
- Books about Turkey