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Inside the wake of the Sept 11 episodes and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up within an insular conservative town in NJ, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Significantly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home had taken on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she shifted to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas in regards to a mythical city perched between East and Western, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. During the period of her a long time of residing in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she discovered a great deal about these countries and their ethnicities and histories and politics. However the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned all about her own country - and herself, an North american abroad in the era of American decrease. It would take going out of her home to discover what she arrived to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the knowledge of American power surrounding the world.
