Erdağ Göknar directs the Duke University Middle East Studies Center and is the award-winning translator of Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red (Knopf) as well as the author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (Routledge). His most recent publication is a collection of poetry, Nomadologies (Turtle Point).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Light of the Bosphorus: Orhan Pamuk’s Photography in “Balkon”
In "Balkon," Pamuk relies on photography to provide context as well as archival evidence. The photographs become part of the process of writing....
A Turkish Woman in the Oedipus Complex: Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red-Haired Woman”
Erdağ Göknar reviews Orhan Pamuk's latest....
A Nomad Between Worlds
Erdağ Göknar discusses Mohed Altrad’s “Badawi” and the complexity of tradition versus modernity in the Middle East and Europe....
