Episode 10: Ece Temelkuran and Doug Saunders talk about social cohesion and polarisation of societies
In this special episode of “Think. Debate. Inspire”, Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Ece Temelkuran and Doug Saunders about social cohesion, political polarisation in Germany and elsewhere.
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist, a political thinker, and a public speaker whose work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Le Monde, La Stampa, New Statesman, and Der Spiegel, among several international media outlets. Ece Temelkuran lived in Beirut, Tunis, and Paris, to write her novels and won several awards, among others the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow On Knots and the Ambassador Of New Europe Award for her book Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy.
Doug Saunders is an author, journalist and consultant of Canadian and British citizenship. He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011), The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and Maximum Canada (2017). Furthermore, he is the international-affairs columnist for the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail and writes about the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news. He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa.