Tag Archives: Gaziantep

On the 1st day of Christmas: Meet Esma, the hippie Karagöz puppet

Posted on December 13, 2011 by lizcameron

So, for the 12 days before Christmas, you are meeting the various Karagöz shadow puppet characters that roam around in my head. No, I am not a person with a major mental illness. No, I don’t really, really see puppets … Continue reading →

Posted in Introducing the Karagöz puppets, On writing about my life with the Karagöz puppets | Tagged Bursa, esma, Gaziantep, Ottoman Empire, Puppetry, Sultan | 44 Comments

Of Atatürk, Obama and navigating U.S. politics as a couple post 9-11

Posted on September 7, 2011 by lizcameron

So, having spent a great deal of time remembering how I “dreamed of a burqini” my first summer in Turkey while obsessing over my own body image challenges, cross-cultural marriage is, of course, about a lot more than this. As … Continue reading →