Archive - Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

May 2025

Good Old Laughter In Times of Sadness

May 25 •

What One Thousand and One Nights Can Teach Us Today

“You must have grown up with different stories in Turkey,” said an American scholar to me many years ago.

May 18 •

Writers and Mental Health Struggles:

Wounds Into Healing Words

May 11

Homo sapiens or Homo narrans?: Storytelling Tribe

This novel is the work of a junior sc…

May 4 •

April 2025

You Are An Essential Piece In The Puzzle

You are not an isolated entity,

Apr 27 •

We Are What We Read

A poet, a writer, and a mythical bird.... let me tell you a story from olden times....

Apr 20 •

We Read. We Write. We Belong.

You write a story based on a specific time,…

Apr 13 •

Times Are Bad and Proust is Too Short

These are liquid times.

Apr 6 •

March 2025

Searching For The Most Beautiful Word in the English Language

We live in a strange world where we are told that the most beautiful word in the English language is…..

Mar 30 •

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