Which world exists in the middle of Bosphorus? On one side we have Europe; on the other side we have Asia. A millenarian tension crossing the works by the novelist Orhan Pamuk and the poet Nâzim Hikmet, two major names of the 21st-century Turkish literature. In this reader’s community, we will navigate between East and West.

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ALEXANDRA LUCAS COELHO

Alexandra Lucas Coelho was born in December 1967, in Lisbon. For the newspaper Público, she edited the sections "Leituras" and "Mil Folhas", co-edited "Cultura" and currently she integrates the team Grandes Repórteres. Since 2001, she has travelled regularly through the Middle East and Central Asia. She published the books Oriente Próximo (2007), a set of journalistic narratives between Israelis and Palestinians, and Caderno Afegão (2009), a travel journal in Afghanistan.