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Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

We are acting as if we have no memory. It's just pure collective amnesia that I find very worrying. In 2003 we've seen the statues of Saddam being toppled down and hailed as a big revolution. And ...