Fashion and Fiction: Elif Shafak on 21 June 2019, V&A

[@bambit08]

Elif Shafak is so wise. So wonderful to listen to - her speech is beautiful. ❤️

[@yasinhassani3929]

she is wonderful 🤗

[@johndavies1336]

Elif is so warm and brilliant! She is able to capture and recreate the complexity of the lives of vulnerable people in all its colors and moods. Elif is well worth the Nobel Literature Award, even the NB Peace Award , as she is a great humanist and peace maker, listening to her enables one to reflect over one’s own existents and to recall those significant people who have helped one along life’s long road. ♦️♦️♦️

[@kenzafilali9115]

I like all the videos where this woman is involved

[@hajranaeem7804]

Elif you are full of wisdom u speak real words wish i could meet u some day!

[@emilyaetheris9624]

I am a Greek woman but I very connected to your way of thinking. We must fight for the future of free thought and free speech, for all.

[@Qumak13]

Awesome woman and the pride of Turkey! A truly clever and inspiring person! ❤❤❤

[@juanantoniomorenogarcia194]

Thank you Elif the way you speak with ritm help me to learn English

[@viajerogastronomico6335]

One of my favorite of elif shafak's books..

[@rihab2011]

I love the conversation ! Thanks for sharing

[@joannaRB]

What a rare pleasure she is to listen to!

[@shamsur4342]

IT WAS AMAZING। elif shafak such great writer....

[@dido4082]

No she ain't...l hope sooner than later that you will realise that

[@shamsur4342]

@@dido4082 hey y u think so...?

[@dido4082]

@@shamsur4342 l say so...

[@rdgist]

Love her mind and words! Thank you Elif Shafak!🙏💐

[@kouserfatima2045]

Beautiful lady ❣️ and Beautiful voice. Elif shafq

[@galaklilu8571]

Great person, I’m thankful that you exist.

[@fatimahghamdi2928]

Wow she always amazes me

[@emilyaetheris9624]

We nee more women in this world, just like her.

[@IslamicChronicles369]

Hijab is a protection from bad people of the society. It doesn't mean that the women who doesn't wear hijab are bad women or sinners. I also wear veil but I don't judge other women. I pray that every women is safe from all the bad things

[@kouserfatima2045]

I want to work on this Novel plz help me under which scenario I take my research on this Novel 10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world.

[@devrimumit5700]

Since when you have become the "British-Turkish" novelist?

[@laviedemoi3306]

Wole Soyinka ile bir videosu var, orada da kendini tanıtırken “British Turkish” novelist diyor. Günün trendi neyse o kimliğe bürünüyor. Gender-fluid olabilir belki ama identity-fluid olması da bir garip. Commonwealth yazarlara dahil olmak istedi heralde.. ki bu iyi bir şey bile değil, bir çeşit ikinci sınıf İngilizlik.. Ne diyelim, ergenliği geçeli uzun zaman oldu sanıyordum 😂

[@mafiosoginger]

@@laviedemoi3306 bu videosunda basortusu ile ilgili soruyu da geçiştirdi. Turkiyenin laik modern kimliğini vurgulamıyor. geri kalmıs orta dogu ulkesi imajı verdi. yazık

[@laviedemoi3306]

mafiosoginger Marjinal olmak istiyor -bundan ne anlıyor onu da bilmiyorum- seçtiği konular itibariyle de öyle, amacı bir şeylere dikkat çekmek ya da kendi ifade ettiği gibi “sorular sormak” değil, ezilen “öteki”nin üzerinden PR yapmak. Türkiye bir sömürge ülkesiymiş, ilkesiz, adaletsiz geri kalmış bir yermiş ama o aydın kimliğiyle ülkesine yabancılaşmış bu nedenle öteki kabul edilen karakterleri işliyor. Sufism popülerken Mevlana’yı sömürdü, herkes coming-out videoları çekerken biseksüelim dedi vs vs. Covid19’la ilgili bir roman bekliyorum, salgın temasını toplumun ötekileri üzerinden anlatıp gündeme girebilir yine.. Ana karakter: salgında tedavi edilmeyen hamile kaldığı için töreden kaçan Kürt lezbiyen ateist Dilan.. 😂😂😂

[@mafiosoginger]

@@laviedemoi3306 ulkedeki sorunlarin biz de farkindayiz. kitaplarindaki sectigi temalar da tabi ki tercihi. Ancak soylesilerde Turkiyenin genel durumunu ifade ediyormus izlenimi vermis.

[@joliebunny88]

She lives in Britain and writes in English, I think it’s fair enough if she identifies as British-Turkish.

[@dido4082]

British/Turkish writer??

[@anilsampat1827]

Plus born in France, educated in Turkey, Boston etc. worked & lived in many countries including USA. What a Soul?

[@dido4082]

Exactly my point? All that background and not even a glimpse of british /turkishness in sight.....

[@mayrasiddiq5568]

Yup she is

[@bakhtawarnawaz7791]

I liked elif but now my opinion is changing. Even here she talks about restrictions imposed by states to veil as obligation however she does not even mention about states like france who sanction women to wear hijab. If women should be free to not wear hijab, they should also be equally free to wear hijab!!

[@tuncaypusat2684]

She doesnt know where Van is in Turkey. Thats awfull

[@tuncaypusat2684]

Haha, she is writing about the village in VAN, but saying van is on russian border. But everyone know that turkey has not that border with russia

[@TravelsNTrips]

I live in Pakistan and I also wondered when she said that I know about Van more than her I guess Anyways she is so impressive

[@laviedemoi3306]

Van, in real life, is near Iran not Russia, if she fictionalized the place, then it’s OK. By the way, the thing she said about religion, it’s permissions (halal) and prohibitions (haram).. well, isn’t it correct? for a religion to have them both? Love itself has its own borders as well, so she manipulates the concept of religion to sound more “less-conservative” lol

[@khaliltaqawi4762]

Love goes beyond boundaries of wrong and right 😊

[@mayrasiddiq5568]

Her passion and love for her country,Turkey is impeccable simply.

[@elvansavkl7972]

I know frıom my experiences that they can not be sisters.

[@sabzali9618]

Aren't these things happening in western society

[@elvansavkl7972]

No,they can not be sisters.

[@barbaraisenschmid9911]

. .

[@naila2303]

Why not you write about your country of birth and choice.

[@anngel2041]

I hate the fact that she's defending LGBT

[@borane8819]

Elif Safak steals the lyrics of other books. This is plagiarism and nothing else!

[@leadcode9436]

Give examples

[@laviedemoi3306]

The Series By Beryl Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus / Elif Shafak - The Gaze (Mahrem) soooooo many similarities somehow.

[@alexandrac9536]

"Good writers borrow, great writers steal". There is nothing entirely original but every voice brings something different to the recycled stories.

[@dilaraokur2006]

No it’s just pastiche

[@pixiesashes]

heart chakra is green