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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and President of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, and The Forty Rules of Love, among many others. In 2021, the BBC named her among the 100 most inspiring and influential women in the world, and she is noted for advocacy for women's rights, freedom of expression and LGBTQ+ rights.
Elif Shafak is a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and President of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the author of There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, and The Forty Rules of Love, among many others. In 2021, the BBC named her among the 100 most inspiring and influential women in the world, and she is noted for advocacy for women's rights, freedom of expression and LGBTQ+ rights.
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In defense of pornography
The Agony & the Ecstasy
Against Meritocracy
The Problem of Evil
Morality of the Tribe
The Lure of Lucifer
Our Sins and Our Selves
The Mystery of the Good
The Really Real
The Good, The Bad, and the Controversial
Rethinking Feminism
Being Human and Being Good
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Women and Conquest
The World After Men
Sisters and the Sisterhood
Is Religion Dangerous?
After Buddhism
The Last Taboo
Doing Right and Feeling Good
Thinking Good and Doing Evil
Witches, Sluts, Feminists
On Evil
Return to Radical Feminism
Trouble with Heaven
The Story of Romance
A Politics of Hope
On Humans and Animals
Dancing with the Devil
Equality and Difference
Rethinking Science and Spirituality
After Feminism
Beyond Men and Women
Equal Is Unfair
Victims and Conquerors
Forbidden Fantasies
Can Animals Be Moral?
Reason and the Gods
The Self and the Selfie
Greater Than Equal
Real Men
New Gods
The Fountain
Morality and Mindfulness
How to See Things Clearly
The Death of God and the War On Terror
Ethics, Darwin and Dante
Selling Ourselves
Good and evil around the globe
Belief and the Gods