Podcast Episodes featuring Elif Shafak
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220. Elif Shafak (writer) – the cemetery of the companionless
Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - November 16, 2019 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings“Maybe the opposite of goodness is not evil. Maybe the opposite of goodness is, in fact, numbness.” There are so many questions we never ask. So many assumptions we make every second of every day because our minds and our lives are sealed off from one another, accessible only through time, patie...
The revolutionary power of diverse thought | Elif Shafak
TED Talks Daily - October 25, 2019 10:00 ★★★★ - 9.8K ratings"From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism." A native of Turkey, Shafak has experienced firstha...
Elif Shafak on the urgent power of storytelling
The TED Interview - October 23, 2019 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2K ratingsBest-selling author Elif Shafak proves that storytelling can be profoundly political—and makes the case for embracing uncertainty in turbulent times. We're doing a TED Interview survey! If you have a few minutes, we'd love to know your thoughts on the show. Find it at: surveynerds.com/...
How I Found My Voice: Elif Shafak
Intelligence Squared - September 17, 2019 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsThis is an episode from a new podcast strand launched by Intelligence Squared called How I Found My Voice. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling – and unique – communicators. Samira...
Will Jawando, Mark McKinnon, Ali Vaez, Elif Shafak, Kristen Arnett
Amanpour - August 01, 2019 18:57 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratingsFormer Obama White House official Will Jawando, and Creator and host, "The Circus" Mark McKinnon break down the democratic debates with Christiane Amanpour. Iran project director of the International Crisis Group, Ali Vaez reacts the Trump administration's latest sanctions on Iran. Turkish-Britis...
203. Elif Shafak (novelist) – The story no one hears
Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - July 13, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratingsAfter four years and just over 200 conversations for this podcast, I’m feeling the need for a new kind of politics. One that would champion uncertainty, fragility, emotional vulnerability against the tyranny of opinions that push us one way or another. I used to think that art was sufficient for ...
Elif Shafak, Women Chelsea Pensioners, Sports Coaching
Woman's Hour - June 06, 2019 14:44 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 251 ratingsTurkish writer Elif Safak’s latest novel '10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World' tells the story of Leila, a woman whose body has died, but whose mind has a precious ten minutes to reflect on the joy, pain and injustice of her life as a prostitute in Istanbul. Jenni talks to her about tackl...
Elif Shafak | Three Daughters of Eve with Siri Hustvedt | A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
Free Library Podcast - February 02, 2018 10:18 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratingsWatch the video here. The most widely read female writer in Turkey, Elif Shafak has penned more than a dozen ''vibrant, lush and lively'' (Washington Post) books that have been translated into more than 40 languages. This work includes the bestselling novels The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty R...
Elif Shafak
Desert Island Discs - May 28, 2017 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKirsty Young's castaway this week is the Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Elif Shafak has published ten novels and several volumes of non-fiction and her work is translated into 47 languages. She is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey today. Born in 1971, she was raised by a single work...
Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love
World Book Club - March 01, 2014 10:02 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratingsThis month we’re talking to one of Turkey’s foremost writers Elif Shafak. She’s answering your questions about her bestselling novel The Forty Rules of Love, an investigation into love, mysticism and the life of the famed Sufi poet Rumi. Crossing continents and centuries two parallel love st...
848: A 2010 Interview with Elif Shafak
Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - March 15, 2010 02:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings"I know that culture that exists in my country, that is carried on by women, generations of women."
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