Suzy Hansen
¹ú²úÊÓƵ (ASU Future Security) Fellow, 2020 & Author From Life Itself
From Life Itself
A conversation with Suzy Hansen and Peter Bergen (this event is cosponsored with ASU and the Future Security Initiative)
- Virtual
- 2PM – 3PM EDT
One neighborhood in Istanbul offers a window onto a city, a country, a region, and a world in upheaval. In , Suzy Hansen centers her reporting on Karagümrük.
It is here that Hansen went looking for the truth behind headlines about President Erdoğan’s authoritarian turn, a catastrophic regional war, and an accelerating geopolitical crisis. She asks whether Turkey was a harbinger of the global resurgence of authoritarianism—or whether the lives of this neighborhood reveal a more complex story.
Over a decade reporting from Karagümrük, Hansen came to know its people: İsmail, the longtime muhtar; Hüseyin, a loyalist for Erdoğan’s AK Party; and Ebru, a real estate agent and mother seeking to unseat İsmail. Through these local lives, she connects neighborhood change to forces reshaping Turkey, the Middle East, and the world.
Join the ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Fellows and Future Security Programs for a conversation with 2020 ¹ú²úÊÓƵ (ASU Future Security) Fellows Suzy Hansen and Peter Bergen about From Life Itself.
Copies of From Life Itself are available for purchase through our bookselling partner Solid State Books.
Speakers
Peter Bergen
Vice President, Global Studies & Fellows; Professor of Practice, Arizona State University
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