Turkish journalist Elif Akgül is due to appear before an Istanbul criminal court today, 30 September, on a charge of being a ...

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

Elif Shafak’s new novel reveals such a timely confluence of today’s issues that it seems almost clairvoyant. Sexual harassment, Islamist terrorism, the rising tension between the faithful and the ...