From Istanbul to Kathmandu: Hippies on the Ride
we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside.’ ― Allen Ginsberg There was a time when Istanbul was…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 30/08/2026
we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside.’ ― Allen Ginsberg There was a time when Istanbul was…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 30/08/2026
There are museums in which one looks at the past, and others in which the…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 29/08/2026
Among the fishmongers, greengrocers, spice shops and old taverns of Kadıköy Market, there once lived…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 29/08/2026
On 2 and 3 September, Fazıl Say returns to Istanbul with his new project, the…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 27/08/2026
Forgive me if I tend to romanticize the past.” from Woody Allen’s Radio Days I…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 27/08/2026
“They eat, write, sleep, and sit low; we high.” Lord Baltimore, A Tour to the…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 24/08/2026
In 1786, two young men occupying very different worlds began a discreet correspondence. One was…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 24/08/2026
Istanbul has carried many names across the centuries. It has been Byzantion, Constantinople, Konstantiniyye, İstanbul…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 24/08/2026
Şirin Pancaroğlu Istanbul is never silent. Even in its quietest hours, it hums beneath the…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 23/08/2026
Dedicated to my paternal grandmother Nezihe Doğrusöz and all the Circassion women who found a…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 23/08/2026
Dedicated to my maternal grandfather Suat Vina My story with Ivan Aivazovsky began long before…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/08/2026
“The Bosphorus not only exceeded my expectations, but rather surprised me by how completely different…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/08/2026
When we think of Vikings, Constantinople is rarely the first city that comes to mind.…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 21/08/2026
Visual is taken from rexby.com In a city where restaurants appear and disappear with astonishing…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 19/08/2026
Some books survive because kings and sultans preserve them in palaces. Others are copied endlessly,…
by Mahan Dogrusoz 19/08/2026