ece temelkuran

In difficult times, we retreat into our own bubble. But isolation breeds something else: distance, distrust and hardening of hearts. As Hannah Arendt wrote, loneliness provides fertile ground for radicalisation and polarisation. Writer Ece Temelkuran warns of the consequences of the rise of the far right in Europe and writes about the reality of exile and uprooting. The good news? We are all wandering and displaced, searching for what may well be the only remedy: one another. How do you build a home in a world full of strangers? 

Ece Temelkuran has twice been named Turkey’s most-read columnist and has received numerous international awards for her books and journalism, including for her work in The New York Times and The Guardian. In 2016, she fled from Turkey to Germany due to her criticism of the Turkish regime. Her work, with a sharp eye and a poetic spirit, explores contemporary democracies and ‘the displaced heart of humanity’. Nation of Strangers is her latest book and Together: a Manifesto Against a Heartless World follows later this year.