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    • Friday, 5 June, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Letter from Amsterdam: the art of lifting lockdown

      What does it feel like to have your first Real-Life Cultural Experience in months?

    • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
      Travel
      Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Greek villa prepares for its first guests

      The country is reopening to tourists — and this could be its finest place to stay

    • Friday, 17 January, 2020
      Books
      Remembering Roger Scruton

      A celebration of the late conservative philosopher’s life

    • Sunday, 24 November, 2019
      UK general election
      Britons should learn to vote like the Ancient Greeks

      Few modern politicians would have survived the fierce scrutiny of the time

    • Friday, 26 July, 2019
      At Home with the FT
      At home with master ceramicist Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye

      A converted gym in Paris provides light and space for the 80-year-old to work

    • Friday, 14 June, 2019
      Life & Arts
      Paris Diary: sad selfies at Notre-Dame

      How to pay one’s respects at the scene of the tragedy? Alev Scott finds tourists in two minds

    • Friday, 21 September, 2018
      Greece
      Why Greece’s Syriza and Golden Dawn parties are feuding over the classics

      In a polarised Greece, classical writers are being weaponised by the right and left

    • Friday, 6 July, 2018
      Life & Arts
      From exile, watching Turkey and Erdogan’s tightening grip

      Barred from her country as a journalist, Alev Scott joined a growing diaspora of Turks observing it from Greece

    • Friday, 30 March, 2018
      Life & Arts
      The agonies of writing from exile

      Barred from her second home Turkey in 2016, Alev Scott explores the role of a writer cut off from the pulse of their country

    • Friday, 25 August, 2017
      FT Magazine
      ‘By the way, I’m a woman’: the truth about ambiguous names

      Alev Scott finds that her unusual forename reveals a world of hidden prejudices

    • Friday, 31 March, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Are trigger warnings more harmful than taboo subjects?

      Potentially offensive topics are on the rise in popular culture, but can trigger warnings really shield us from upset? And should they?

    • Friday, 3 March, 2017
      Life & Arts
      ‘Incoming’ by Richard Mosse: roads to nowhere

      A new video installation captures the often perilous journeys of hundreds of anonymous refugees

    • Friday, 3 February, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Border by Kapka Kassabova — a journey to the edge of Europe

      A lyrical portrait of the boundary region that straddles Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece

    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2016
      Turkish politics
      Erdogan hammers in the final nail for Turkey’s free press

      A venerable left-leaning daily faces the same fate as other newspapers

    • Friday, 23 September, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Obonjan festival: 24-hour pilates people

      Europe’s festival scene is shifting, with the private Croatian island offering wellness with a twist

    • Friday, 26 August, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Turkey by Ece Temelkuran review — ‘both an elegy and an exposé’

      A nuanced account of the country’s turbulent political history

    • Friday, 24 June, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Postcard from . . . Turkey

      A parade by the Afro-Turk community, the Dana Bayram festival celebrates a shared heritage lost in a history of oppression

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