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Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for a talk and Q&A with Dr. Kaya Genç on Wednesday, Feburary 12, 2025 from 12:30PM- 2:00PM. Lunch will be served! 

Co-sponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and MENA.

Kaya Genç, a European Press Prize finalist, is the author of four books: The Lion and the Nightingale (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), Under the Shadow (I.B. Tauris, 2016), An Istanbul Anthology (American University in Cairo Press, 2015) and Macera (YKY, 2008). Kaya has contributed to the world’s leading journals and newspapers, including two front page stories in The New York Times, cover stories in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, The Believer, and The Times Literary Supplement, and essays and articles in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books. A critic for Artforum and Art in America, he has been a contributing editor at Index on Censorship since 2013 and at The Dial since 2024. Kaya is the Istanbul correspondent of Los Angeles Review of Books. He publishes updates on his work on his website, kayagenc.net, and his newsletter, kayagenc.substack.com.