ISSRPL Blog Finally Active

Dear ISSRPL 2007 Fellows,

After quite a long time, we have finally established a blog of our own. We have all been very busy lately, so a silence in the e-mail communication between us - that had taken place to some extent, immediately after the summer school, but stopped as our day-to-day obligations took over - was somehow not surprising. We all have our daily duties, obligations and other things that occupy us, so it seems very hard to maintain regular communication with people living on the other side of the globe.

Nonetheless, in order to make the communication channel more visible and "tangible", we have - as promised at the school's last night in Yenisehir Palas - put some efforts and finally created this blog domain for our common use. As you will recall, the entire idea of that last night was related exactly to problems of our continuous communication, once we all leave Istanbul and go back to our lives in countries where we live. Well, this blog is an attempt to spur more communication between the Fellows, offering a place where the discussion we started in Istanbul can continue for as long as we like. So, consider this blog to be our "virtual" Istanbul, our virtual Academy for exchange of thoughts, ideas and news. However, this does't mean that the blog is exclusively reserved for "serious" stuff - quite contrary, all of the news, thoughts, poems, stories, jokes from the Fellows are more than welcome.

This is the Fellows' site. But, also this does not mean that our dear lecturers and teachers cannot consider it as their own space as well. We invite all of them to join us in this modest web endeavour, to give us their thoughts, news and other things they consider to be relevant for our common experience. We also invite them to offer their new ideas to us, their new essays, books and analyses on all of the matters we talked about in Turkey, so we could continue our discussion.

The main body of this blog will be reserved for the Fellows' contribution, be it short greetings, some news or entire essays and articles you wrote recently. On the right side of the blog you will find the archive of all of the posts, as well as some of the Fellow photos and other relevant stuff. We also invite all of you to post your photos at the section provided.

Let us hope that this blog will become a useful mechanism for nurturing our spirit of discussion, as well as our friendship. (The password for posting is available at Selma Sevkli and Eldar Sarajlic, so please contact these Fellows if you want to post something -or simply send your articles/essays to avoid technical difficulties and we'll publish them for you

selmasevkli@gmail.com, eldarsaraj@hotmail.com)