Press Play with Madeleine Brand

A Journey Through Hate and Possibility

Growing up Armenian-American, Meline Toumani was taught to hate all things Turkish. Eventually though, that hatred started to eat away at her. So she decided to face it head-on. She quit her job as a journalist at the New York Times and moved to Istanbul.

By Madeleine Brand • Nov 20, 2014 • 1 min read

Growing up Armenian-American, Meline Toumani was taught to hate all things Turkish. Eventually though, that hatred started to eat away at her. So she decided to face it head-on. She quit her job as a journalist at the New York Times and moved to Istanbul. What she learned and experienced in her two years in Turkey became her new book, There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia and Beyond.

Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Meline Toumani
Author of 'There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia and Beyond'

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

A Journey Through Hate and Possibility

Growing up Armenian-American, Meline Toumani was taught to hate all things Turkish. Eventually though, that hatred started to eat away at her. So she decided to face it head-on. She quit her job as a journalist at the New York Times and moved to Istanbul.

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

A Journey Through Hate and Possibility

Growing up Armenian-American, Meline Toumani was taught to hate all things Turkish. Eventually though, that hatred started to eat away at her. So she decided to face it head-on. She quit her job as a journalist at the New York Times and moved to Istanbul.

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