Nora Fisher-Onar is Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of San Francisco. She has written extensively on how to learn about key trends in world politics from “non-Western” experiences. Her books on Turkey include Contesting Pluralism(s): Islam, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City (Rutgers University Press, 2018 – with Susan C. Pearce & E. Fuat Keyman).