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TO KNOW IT WELL, YOU MUST TURN ONLY TO ISTANBUL, AND LOSE YOURSELF – An evening on the Bosphorus, with its languid atmosphere, where to live rare moments that depend on human creativity.

For a single look at the world, it’s Istanbul that you have to look at. The sum of energy and life in the air, the style and behavior of people, make Istanbul special https://www.istanbultouristpass.com/tourist-attractions-in-istanbul. Here, the ruins coexist with the city, captivating travelers and travel writers. In the words of a Turkish poet, the eyes of those who yoy love …

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THE VIRTUAL STORY – Bikem Ekberzade: Becoming know for work on forced migration.

The Refugee Project. Illegal, her 2006 book of photographs, documenting lives of two young African women, trying to survive in Istanbul. Since the 1990s, she has worked with news outlets, also selected as the photographer of the month by European Press Network World Reporter. She is know for her work on forced migration. Born 1971 in Istanbul, BIKEM EKBERZADE https://www.facebook.com/TheVirtualStory/ …

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ILLUSIONAL FASHION ARMONY – Ece Gozen: An amazing road to walk, when future seems so bright.

Design for inspiring and mysterious women. She was born in 1989. With her collection titled “Reflection”, in 2012 ECE GOZEN http://www.turkishfashion.net/Fashion-Designers/ece-g%C3%B6zen/91474 received 3rd place in a Young Fashion Designers Competition. Since 2009, she worked with well know designers. Born in 1989, she studied Textile and Fashion Design at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. A gallery exhibiting her collection were publish …

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TURKISH SOCIETY AND CLASH BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN CULTURE – Halide Edib: The rights of women and their emancipation.

There are moments in life that have no time. It is just an effect, just a life-shock. She played a major role in the Turkish Hearth clubs that were design to encourage social and economic progress. Novelist and pioneer in the emancipation of women in Turkey, HALIDE EDIB was born 1883 in Istanbul. She became actively engaged in Turkish literary …

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MUSIC IS NOT A PROFESSION, IT IS A LOVE – Anjelika Akbar: My destiny, written in Turkey.

Wherever I am happy, as in a journey of love, there is music with me. At the age of four, admitted to a school for child prodigies, she drawing the interest of the Moscow State Conservatory musicians. Her mother was a professional musician, and her father was a philosopher who also directed an orchestra. Born 1969 in Karaganda (ex Soviet …

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SENSITIVE TO THE MEANING AND EPHEMERALNESS OF LIFE – Osman Hamdi Bey: Classical and orientalist attitudes in style,

Realising pictures that have conflicting pairs: East and West, Belief and Love, Life and Death. What is important about his work is that it shows a very different version of Islam, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq08-P0QKFo. Throughout his professional career, he continued to paint in the style of his teachers. His father belonged to a family of …

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FROM KARACHI TO HAVELIAN, TOGETHER WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE – Travel to Pakistan, experiencing a world of days and nights where you will have another time and space.

Where the ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. She like fine art photography. Since 1997, she has taught photography at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. She like personal self-expression (but also freelancing for publications). FARAH MAHBUB http://farahmahbub.com/, graduated in Karachi with Bachelor of Arts degree, has been working as a …

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THE SILENCE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH CRIES OUT – Farah Mahbub: Through the layers of meaning, images transcend its two-dimensional limitations.

When ideas and intuitions connect with imagery, becoming one. Not all of us are verbal enough in putting into words any visual rush witnessed. So, photography help you, becoming an evolving medium. Incorporating shade, textures, natural objects and calligraphic text, her work traverses from documentary to digital photomontage techniques. She is qually adept in analogue printing as she is in …

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A MARKED SIGNATURE STYLE, USING INTRICATE CRAFTSMANSHIP – Zainab Chottani, unique way of playing with colors.

Intricate embellishments, sculpted in luxuriant fabrics in both bold and soft hues. She is an extremely creative woman, born in Karachi on a day in October 1982. She did her first show in 2010, and has showcased her work during the Pakistan Fashion Week and Bridal Couture Week. She started as a bridal wear designer but has then included prêt …

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HOW LONG WILL YOUR LIFE, TO MAKE SOMEONE’S HEART BIGGER? – Bano Qudsia: When madness is the result of unfulfilled wishes.

Insanity is always the best way to get relief. Her father was a Bachelor of Agriculture and her brother was a painter. BANO QUDSIA was born on a November day 1928 in Firozpur, a city on the banks of the Sutlej River (Firozpur District, Punjab, India). After the partition of India, she migrated to Lahore, where had begun writing short …

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