Tales from the Expat Harem

Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey

Fourth Turkish edition cover
Author	Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen
Country	United States & Turkey
Language	English & Turkish
Subject	Travel
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Seal Press & Doğan Kitap
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	975-293-381-5
OCLC	61285623
Dewey Decimal	956.104/086/91 22
LC Class	DR432 .T29 2006

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).

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?

Contributing writers

Amanda Coffin	Erica Kaya	Nancy Lunsford
Ana Carolina Fletes	Eveline Zoutendijk	Natalie Baker
Anastasia M. Ashman	Jennifer Eaton Gokmen	Pat Yale
Annie Prior Ozsarac	Jessica Lutz	Rhonda Vander Sluis
Catherine Salter Bayar	Karen-Claire Voss	Sally Green
Catherine Yigit	Katherine Belliel	Susan Fleming Holm
Claire Uhr	Kathleen Hamilton Gundogdu	Tanala OsaYande
Dana Gonzalez	Louise Ruskin	Trici Venola
Dena Sukaya	Mahira Afridi-Perese	Valerie Tasiran
Diane Caldwell	Maria Yarbrough Orhon	Wendy J. Fox
Eppie Lunsford	Maureen Basedow

External links

• Official Website of Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
• NBC's Today Show interview on Where in the World is Matt Lauer?
• KUSF 90.3FM Turkish Radio Hour interview with editors