"The real Turkey, as if in a dream
*Sinan Unel's well-received 'Pera Palas' is an enlightening portrait of Turkey's high-wire act of balancing European and Islamic influences.
By Don Shirley, Times Staff Writer
When the San Francisco-born but Turkish-reared playwright Sinan Ünel attended the University of Kansas, he found that most Americans knew very little about Turkey.
The predominantly Islamic country's proximity to many Arab states makes people "think it's an Arab country," he says. "It's like confusing America with Mexico because they're both Christian countries in the same area."
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