On Istanbul:
"This city is trying to soak up anything that comes to it. This is a task we all face somehow: settling the contradictions and paradoxes inside. … Stuck between an increasingly neoliberal Europe on one side and an East torn by war and despair, with economic and political deadlock on the other side, İstanbul is a metaphor of odds for our current states of mind. ... This city ... still has a lot to tell about its experiences engraved with blood on its soil.”
Jamal Mahjoub
Sudanese-British writer
"...Born in the Sudan but educated in England and now living in Denmark, Mahjoub straddles many zones of identification and uses High Modernist novel techniques to produce narratives that poignantly critique colonialism..."
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