theartsdesk in Istanbul: East meets West at the Istanbul Music Festival
A music festival that's Moorish in more ways than one
by Alexandra CoghlanSunday, 08 July 2012
There’s a peculiarly boundless quality to Istanbul – a city where private domestic life sprawls publically out across pavements and parks, the bustle of the city seeps out beyond land onto the commercial waterways of the Bosphorous, and cats stroll casually in and out of concert halls. Borders here are porous, a symptom of those greater national divisions that set Turkey in an ongoing tug-of-war between Europe and the Middle East – a frontier territory, one of political, religious and cultural dialogue but also of conflict.
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