‘I fell in love with the overall society — the organisation, biking culture, openness to change’
4 years ago

‘I fell in love with the overall society — the organisation, biking culture, openness to change’

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Originally from the seaside town of Ayvalık in Turkey, Ozan Ozavci is an assistant professor of trans-imperial history at the University of Utrecht. He says he’s fallen in love with Dutch cycling culture and Old Amsterdam goat’s cheese and would relish the opportunity to discuss politics with Thierry Baudet. One day, a colleague, one of the senior ones, told me, ‘We want you here and we hired you, Ozan, so that you would offer us what the Dutch cannot.’ This triggered in me the importance of my non-Dutch or international identity at the university. Number three, I don’t know which of the two, but I would like to talk to either of the far right leaders. It would be sad to think about because I’m happy here but, if I were to do that, I would walk around Utrecht one last time.

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'Umbrellas are pointless in the Netherlands. I'm a rain-suit type of girl'
3 years, 8 months ago

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Sporty equal rights advocate Mérida Miller swapped the US east coast for Amsterdam in 2017. This looks good.’ I made an internal business case to say that I’d love to relocate to the Amsterdam office and I’m really thankful it happened. I would love to take a week off and do a really intensive course, but my job is so …

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Originally from the United Kingdom, Steve White travelled all around the world and lived in Tokyo for several years before he eventually moved to the Netherlands with his family. I know that sounds slight, in a country with so many great things, but it’s really my favourite Dutch thing. My wife can say things to me that, even now, would …

'Van Gogh's life was a tragedy. I’d like to go back in time and console him'
3 years, 10 months ago

'Van Gogh's life was a tragedy. I’d like to go back in time and console him'

Dutch News  

Originally from the United Kingdom, Steve White travelled all around the world and lived in Tokyo for several years before he eventually moved to the Netherlands with his family. I know that sounds slight, in a country with so many great things, but it’s really my favourite Dutch thing. My wife can say things to me that, even now, would …

‘I fell in love with the overall society — the organisation, biking culture, openness to change’
4 years ago

‘I fell in love with the overall society — the organisation, biking culture, openness to change’

Dutch News  

Originally from the seaside town of Ayvalık in Turkey, Ozan Ozavci is an assistant professor of trans-imperial history at the University of Utrecht. He says he’s fallen in love with Dutch cycling culture and Old Amsterdam goat’s cheese and would relish the opportunity to discuss politics with Thierry Baudet. One day, a colleague, one of the senior ones, told me, …

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