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
- Are Fixers Journalists?
- Elif and José
- Elif and Burcu
- Orhan
- Karim
- Nur and İsmet
- Habib
- The Fixer’s Paradox
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Karim
from Part II - Fitting In
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
- Are Fixers Journalists?
- Elif and José
- Elif and Burcu
- Orhan
- Karim
- Nur and İsmet
- Habib
- The Fixer’s Paradox
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After fleeing Damascus, first for Antakya and then to Istanbul after ISIS threatened him, Karim cobbled together a living from fixing gigs. Orhan had connected him with his first reporters, and Karim continued to sub-fix for Orhan on occasion. He also began to recruit clients of his own. Karim knew from his luxury hotel days how to hang out with foreigners, how to play the coolly exotic Syrian and not the desperate or aggressive one, and proved entrepreneurial in using journalist parties to meet potential clients and reduce his dependence on Orhan.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 80 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022