"Pulled by two tides
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Opinion by Elif ŞAFAK
East and West are often used as if they were mutually exclusive categories -- static and eternal. There is, however, one city where you quickly learn to mistrust the two concepts. In Istanbul, you understand, perhaps not intellectually but intuitively, that East and West are ultimately imaginary ideas, ones that can be de-imagined and re-imagined.
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