"An Ancient City in Turkey Finds New Life in Modern Art
By ROBYN ECKHARDT
Published: August 19, 2010
ON a searingly hot Saturday in early June, a small crowd of residents and tourists stood inside the entryway of the 14th-century Zinciriye Medresesi, a mosque and former medrese, or center of Islamic study, in Mardin, an ancient town in southeastern Turkey. Hanging in a row on a wall beneath the narrow room’s vaulted ceiling were front pages from recent issues of Turkish, French and British newspapers. Each was missing a headline, and visitors took turns inscribing their own on strips of paper stacked beneath the display."
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