Who is "Inside Out In Istanbul?"

My name is Lisa Morrow and I first came to Turkey in 1990. I arrived in Turkey just as the Gulf War was starting and my three month stay in the small central Anatolian village of Göreme changed my life. I spent the following years moving between Australia and Turkey. In Australia I worked in publishing, accounts, as an English teacher and freelance proof reader. In Turkey I worked as an English teacher at universities in Istanbul and in Kayseri in central Anatolia. 

Over the course of more than 20 years I have come to know the Turkish culture and its people well. In particular I am fascinated with the way traditional culture, such as kına gecesi and hamam rituals, mix and re-form in this modern metropolis, creating a new form of culture that is as wonderful as it is at times strange to the foreign eye. I want to introduce the genuine and dynamic nature of Turkish culture and its people to the world, and go well beyond familiar and overused tourist stereotypes.

I now reside permanently in Istanbul. A sociologist and writer, I love the mix of old and new in Istanbul and have captured this in my collection of essays called Inside Out In Istanbul available in book and ebook form.