[Linganth] Noah Arjomand on his book, Fixing Stories

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
On CaMP anthropology blog, Susan Seizer asks Noah Arjomand questions about
his new book -- released today --  *Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and
International Media in Turkey and Syria*.

Check it out here:
https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Readers can get 20% off the book with code FS2022 if they order directly
from Cambridge:   www.cambridge.org/9781316518007

Press blurb:
News 'fixers' are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists.
Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key
facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the
difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation
of knowledge from behind the scenes. In Fixing Stories, Noah Amir Arjomand
reflects on the nature of news production and cross-cultural mediation.
Based on human stories drawn from three years of field research in Turkey,
this book unfolds as a series of narratives of fixers' career trajectories
during a period when the international media spotlight shone on Turkey and
Syria. From the Syrian Civil War, Gezi Park protest movement, rise of
authoritarianism in Turkey and of ISIS in Syria, to the rekindling of
conflict in both countries' Kurdish regions and Turkey's 2016 coup attempt,
Arjomand brings to light vivid personal accounts and insider perspectives
on world-shaking events alongside analysis of the role fixers have played
in bringing news of Turkey and Syria to international audiences.
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