Tales from the Expat Harem

Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Turkish: Türkçe Sevmek) is a nonfiction anthology by 32 expatriate women about their lives in modern Turkey, published by Seal Press in North America (2006, ISBN 1-58005-155-3) and Doğan Kitap in Turkey (2005, ISBN 975-293-381-5 Turkish edition, ISBN 975-293-372-6 English edition).

Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
AuthorAnastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen
CountryUnited States & Turkey
LanguageEnglish & Turkish
SubjectTravel
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherSeal Press & Doğan Kitap
Publication date
2006
Media typePrint (Hardback)
ISBN975-293-381-5
OCLC61285623
956.104/086/91 22
LC ClassDR432 .T29 2006

Edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, two American writers based in Istanbul, it was an English language #1 national bestseller in Turkey in January 2006. Its Turkish edition, Türkçe Sevmek: Türkiye'de Yaşayan Yabancı Kadınların Gözüyle Türkler, contains a foreword written by the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.

In May 2008, the book and its editors were featured on NBC's Today, on its occasional travel segment Where in the World is Matt Lauer?[1]

Contributing writers

Amanda CoffinErica KayaNancy Lunsford
Ana Carolina FletesEveline ZoutendijkNatalie Baker
Anastasia M. AshmanJennifer Eaton GokmenPat Yale
Annie Prior OzsaracJessica LutzRhonda Vander Sluis
Catherine Salter BayarKaren-Claire VossSally Green
Catherine YigitKatherine BellielSusan Fleming Holm
Claire UhrKathleen Hamilton GundogduTanala OsaYande
Dana GonzalezLouise RuskinTrici Venola
Dena SukayaMahira Afridi-PereseValerie Tasiran
Diane CaldwellMaria Yarbrough OrhonWendy J. Fox
Eppie LunsfordMaureen Basedow

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