Omur Harmansah: Brown University

Ömür Harmansah

  Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
  Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute
  for Archaeology and the Ancient World,
   and The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies,
  Brown University
    Box 1837 / 70 Waterman Street
    Providence, RI 02912
  Tel: 401-863-6411 Fax: 401-863-9423
  E-mail: Omur_Harmansah@brown.edu
  Office: Joukowsky Institute 202

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"... For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a paranthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect."
Jhumpa Lahiri, Namesake (2003) p. 49.

"Don't grunt" said Alice, "that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself."
(Holding and speaking to the baby pig of the Duchess).
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
"Not so long ago, the Church of England used to pray on Good Friday for God's mercy on the Turks and that all ignorance and hardness of heart be taken from them..."
Richard Clogg, "Between Love and Hate: the empty spaces where Greeks once were" (Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. The mechanism of catastrophe and Samim Akgönül Les grecs de Turquie). TLS December 2, 2005, p. 3.
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Leonard Cohen

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