Category Archives: A Karagöz puppet battle

Esma and Safiye Rakkase brawl over a pistachio nut-fueled metropolis

Posted on November 23, 2014 by lizcameron

I’m sitting here crunching on tiny green nuggets of joy – a.k.a. pistachios. And this is thanks to my puppets, who recently stumbled upon some fantastic (in all senses) news from Gaziantep province. And Gaziantep province, tabi canim*, is the … Continue reading →

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Moving the household operation: Morphine-Managing M. & the Karagöz Puppets

Posted on August 2, 2013 by lizcameron

Now that Catherine the great, the catheter puppet, has (Thank goodness) gone back to her homeland -we can head off to Provincetown for some recovery time. Karagöz interrupts me – “that actually wasn’t a puppet at all!” Karagöz exclaimed. “That … Continue reading →

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#DirenTurkiye: The Karagoz Puppets provide a socio-historical cheat-sheet for what led to #OccupyGezi

Posted on June 16, 2013 by lizcameron

Last night, I was moved to write a blog post after 12 hours of watching horror after horror unleash on the 99% of peaceful protestors in Istanbul. What was worse was knowing we were not seeing it in the other 77 … Continue reading →