The Third Woman: A novel and essay on political alienation and Western intervention in the Middle East

在我提出的研究中，我将根据我作为土耳其女记者的经历创作一部原创文学小说。这部小说将探讨西方干预中东的主题，以及羞耻、政治异化和现代新闻业的衰落等主题。通过以实践为导向的方法，我希望用小说来表达一个人生活在一个受自己外交政策影响的国家时对身份和自我概念的质疑。这项研究将以实践为主导，在这项研究中，我的长篇小说的最终创作工作将得到一篇15000字的评议性文章和对写作过程的学术信息反思评论的支持，这将仔细审查构思、发展和修改项目所采取的实际方法。我的小说以叙利亚内战期间的土耳其加济安泰普为背景。创造性的工作将通过研究该地区的历史，政治和叙利亚内战对当地和外国社会的影响，以及自《赛克斯-皮科协议》以来西方干预中东的更大背景和21世纪初新闻业的衰落来提供信息。这部小说由一位女性作家从女性的角度创作，将受到当代文学创新的影响，特别是自小说、混合写作和海外生活小说中对异化的描写的兴起。

For my proposed research, I will produce an original literary novel based on my experiences as a female journalist in Turkey. The novel will explore the topic of Western intervention Middle East, alongside themes of shame, political alienation and the decline of modern journalism. Through a practice-led approach, I hope to use fiction to represent the questioning of identity and one's notion of self while living in a country effected by the foreign policy of your own.This research will be practice-led, in which my final creative work of a full-length novel will be supported by a 15,000 word evaluative essay and scholarly informed reflective commentary on the writing process, which will scrutinise the practical approach taken to conceive, develop and revise the project. My proposed novel is set in Gaziantep, Turkey during the Syrian Civil War. The creative work will be informed by research into the history of the area, the politics and impact of the Syrian Civil War on local and foreign society, as well as the larger context of Western interventions in the Middle East since the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the decline of journalism in the early 21st century. Written from a female perspective, by a female writer, the novel will be informed by the current innovations in contemporary literature, particularly the rise of auto-fiction, hybrid writing and depictions of alienation in living abroad novels.