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Issue 71, November 2026

The Shimmering City

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Highlights

  • Tangled in Blue

    The Turkish modernist painter Fahrelnissa Zeid’s style was constantly evolving, but through it all ran the sadness of a turbulent life


  • Neither East nor West

    Lucien de Guise admires the Met’s calm reclaiming of the term ‘Orientalist’ for its new show exploring European and Ottoman views of Islamic art


  • Curiouser and Curiouser

    Thomas Roueché loses himself in cabinets of delight at Istanbul’s Meşher


  • A tale of two empires

    Tim Stanley, curator of ‘Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires’ at the V&A, ponders elusive links between the two imperial capitals and relishes the chance to exhibit surprising treasures that show 
the role this great city has played in fashioning our idea of how to live



Inside the issue

Connoisseur

  1. Tangled in Blue Fahrelnissa Zeid in London [extract available online]
  2. Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy, Reviewed by Lucien de Guise.
  3. Curiouser and Curiouser, by Thomas Roueché.
  4. Up Close and Personal, by Ayla Jean Yackley.
  5. Constantinople to Istanbul, by Tim Stanley. Reviewed by Tim Stanley. [available online]
  6. Princes of Power, by Clara Robins.
  7. The goddess who needed no name, by Barnaby Rogerson.

Books

  1. A City of Many Faces, by William Kynan-Wilson.
  2. Have Donkey, Will Travel, by Caroline Finkel.
  3. A Reborn Classic
  4. The Island of Joy

People and Places

  1. Riding a New Wave, by Clara Robins. Photographs by Monica Fritz
  2. Palmyra, by Barnaby Rogerson. Photographs by Don McCullin [extract available online]
  3. A great escape Henry Maguire’s diary of a teenage road trip across Sixties Anatolia
  4. Cairo’s Ottoman Twilight, by Philip Mansel. Photographs by Monica Fritz
  5. All in the mind Richard Dadd at the Royal Academy

Cookery

  1. Some Like it Hot, by Berrin Torolsan. Photographs by Berrin Torolsan
  2. The Orchid Revolution, by Martyn Rix. Photographs by Martyn Rix

From Our Correspondents

  1. On the Buses Taking the bus to Istanbul, by Caroline Finkel.
  2. An indomitable impresario Mehmet Mestçi, by John Shakespeare Dyson.
  3. A bit of je ne sais quoi The happy exile of Traugott Fuchs, by Andrew Finkel.
  4. Something fishy, by Andrew Finkel.

Postscript

  1. Just Think Ionna Kuçuradi (1936–2026, by Clara Robins.
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