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“I remember a feeling…seeing for the first time how someone who couldn’t read, try to give meaning to strange signs [letters] and experiencing the first efforts of a woman putting letters together to make sounds, made me feel like I was witnessing a new birth.” – M.E. Koni In Istanbul, the most industrialized city in […]

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Today is Universal Children’s Day – an entire day to commemorate the beauty of youth! Toys, sweets and bright colors are what most of us think about when we think about children. Unfortunately, this is not the reality for approximately 211 million children around the world. For them, their days start with thoughts of work: […]

Reflection dominates this time of year. As the days on the calendar countdown to a New Year, we all seem to find ourselves looking back at the past year and thinking about the one ahead asking such questions as: What have we achieved? Where do we want to go? As our world moves faster than […]

By Şenay Özdemir I am a Turkish journalist. I am also Dutch and a Texan. I am a woman, a feminist, a mother, a lecturer, a soloist and a world traveller. I am also Muslim. Yet, since 9/11, my Muslim identity counted more than any other characteristic that has contributed to who I am today. […]

Editor’s Note: On August 28, The Hakuna Matata team is taking on Mountain Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for underprivileged students in Turkey. They aim to raise 28,000TL (roughly equal to 15,655 USD or 10,877 Euros). They’ve already raised 17,774 TL. The team takes its name from the Swahili phrase ‘hakuna matata’ which translates […]