Article: Book of the week: Halide's Gift.

SAN DIEGO, Sep 03, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX)

Frances Kazan, director Elia Kazan's wife, developed an interest in the area of central Anatolia, where her husband was born. She studied for her master's degree in Turkish studies and in the process discovered Halide Edib Adivar, a Turkish revolutionary and nationalist, and the first Muslim to graduate from the American Girls College in Istanbul. Frances Kazan was fascinated by the dichotomy of a conservative and religious harem upbringing paralleled by a modern Western education. She read

Halide's memoirs and her novels, passionate and emotional works born, as the author claimed, in "a ...

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