The Turkish writer gained huge popularity among the Arab readers after her hit novel The Forty Rules of Love was translated into Arabic Turkish writer Elif Shafak gained huge popularity among Arab ...

We are acting as if we have no memory. It's just pure collective amnesia that I find very worrying. In 2003 we've seen the statues of Saddam being toppled down and hailed as a big revolution. And ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elif Shafak’s new novel brings together four stories set in three different centuries: ancient Mesopotamia, ...