Suzy Hansen, ASU Future Security Fellow, is working on a book about life in one Istanbul neighborhood. The project will focus on the neighborhood's experience with the Syrian refugee crisis, the long history of internal and external migration in Turkey, and the dramatic changes in Turkish politics and social and urban life during the years of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and the author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for best nonfiction book on international affairs.
Select Work:
- ‘The Era of People Like You Is Over’: How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals: The story of how the Erdogan regime set out to destroy the political science school at Ankara University. (New York Times Magazine, 2019)
- Timeless Life in the Grand Bazaar: A history of the rise and fall of Turkey’s great marketplace. (Lapham's Quarterly, 2019)
- The Erdogan Loyalists and the Syrian Refugees: An exploration of how ordinary Turks are dealing with the consequences of the Syrian refugee crisis, and the primary inspiration for Hansen’s project. (New York Times Magazine, 2016)