Ideas worth spreading

Elif Shafak on the urgent power of storytelling

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Best-selling author Elif Shafak proves that storytelling can be profoundly political -- and makes the case for embracing uncertainty in turbulent times. (Audio only)

Best-selling author Elif Shafak proves that storytelling can be profoundly political -- and makes the case for embracing uncertainty in turbulent times. (Audio only)

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Elif Shafak

Novelist, political scientist

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One of the most unique novelists in today's world literature, Elif Shafak's writing blends East and West, feminism and memory, the local and the global, bringing the periphery to the centre, giving voice to the voiceless and the disempowered.

Chris Anderson

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After a long career in journalism and publishing, Chris Anderson became the curator of the TED Conference in 2002 and has developed it as a platform for identifying and disseminating ideas worth spreading.