east meets west
March 9th 2007 Istanbul appeared to us to be a modern, clean, efficient, largely western city, with some very eastern twists. I was impressed by the many head scarves I saw women wearing, and further struck by the lack of women on the streets and in teahouses after work and in evening. Where are all the women? became a refrain. Five times a day the city echoes with the call to prayer, and it almost seemed as
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