"DEFINING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE THROUGH ITS LITERATURE
Sooyong Kim
When Sooyong Kim studied Turkish literature and culture as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, the Near East rarely received much attention within academic circles or from the popular press. While events in the Balkans and, more recently, in Iraq have changed all that, Kim encourages his students to look beyond the region's political turmoil and consider what is less popularly known about its rich literary and cultural tradition."
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