“We in the West still seemed to believe the old story of how a man transformed an Islamic empire into a secular republic: Atatürk came along, changed some rules, the people followed. Old Turkish textbooks didn’t portray the suppression of… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share
“We in the West still seemed to believe the old story of how a man transformed an Islamic empire into a secular republic: Atatürk came along, changed some rules, the people followed. Old Turkish textbooks didn’t portray the suppression of Islam as anything other than a liberation. But I began to question for the first time what it was like… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share
“Anti-Americanism is not some bitter mental disorder inflamed by conspiracy theories and misplaced furies and envy. It is a broken heart, a defensive crouch, a hundred-year-old relationship, bewilderment that an enormous force controls your life but does not know or love you.” — Suzy Hansen Copy Share
“This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and so you… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“It is common to say Watergate shattered American innocence, that Vietnam shattered American innocence, that September 11 shattered American innocence, that Trump shattered American… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“In school, we did not study world maps, because international geography, as a subject, had been long ago phased out of state curriculums. America… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior, American. We” — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“My friends’ point was: While this class snobbery may offend your Western sensibilities, you, foreigner, are perhaps better off playing by the rules of… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
“But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they might be… — Suzy Hansen Copy Share Image
