Book contents
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Strategic Ambiguity
- Leyla and Aziz
- Orhan
- Burcu, Elif, and Solmaz
- Nur
- Karim and Habib
- José
- Temel and Noah
- Coda: Filling in the Blanks
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Leyla and Aziz
from Part V - From Local to Global
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Strategic Ambiguity
- Leyla and Aziz
- Orhan
- Burcu, Elif, and Solmaz
- Nur
- Karim and Habib
- José
- Temel and Noah
- Coda: Filling in the Blanks
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Aziz’s abduction in Aleppo made the couple more guarded and suspicious about working with the foreign press. The international community’s response was a harsh reminder of their marginal status in journalism. Foreign reporters who reached out to Leyla while Aziz sat in a Jabhat al-Nusra prison cell probed whether Aziz had conspired in his clients’ kidnapping. Those clients’ governments did nothing, as far as the couple could tell, to secure Aziz’s release when they negotiated ransoms for their own citizens.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 273 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022