Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
According to novelist Elif Shafak, 'we need to abolish the narrative that tells us you can only be one thing'. Clip from the Nexus Conference 2016, 'What Will Save the World?', where Shafak spoke about identity, religion and humanism.
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Elif Shafak's essay 'An Appeal to Cosmopolitanism': https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/essay/an-appeal-to-cosmopolitanism-2
According to novelist Elif Shafak, 'we need to abolish the narrative that tells us you can only be one thing'. Clip from the Nexus Conference 2016, 'What Will Save the World?', where Shafak spoke about identity, religion and humanism.
New: Nexus Trial! Get a one-month Trial membership for only 10 euros and receive temporary, unlimited access to our online Treasury, full of videos of past Nexus activities and cultural-philosophical essays (including Shafak's). The membership expires automatically after one month. Try it out: https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/membership/membership
Elif Shafak's essay 'An Appeal to Cosmopolitanism': https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/essay/an-appeal-to-cosmopolitanism-2
