{"id":25522,"date":"2026-01-29T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/?p=25522"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:17:48","slug":"may-26-2026-lianne-harris-the-turkish-harem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/may-26-2026-lianne-harris-the-turkish-harem\/","title":{"rendered":"May 26, 2026 – Lianne Harris: The Turkish Harem"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Enter into the forbidden world of the Harem, a place that was \u2018hidden\u2019, a segregated place for women that existed in many cultures around the world.\u00a0 Turkish culture holds a special fascination.<\/p>

Explore these secret, gilded cages with presenter Lianne Harris as she draws back the veil and reveals the rules, obligations, political agendas, and mysteries of harem culture in Turkey and further beyond into India and China.\u00a0 Learn of the lives of real women\u2013and the men\u2013who were destined to live secretly behind its uncompromising walls.<\/p>

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Enter into the forbidden world of the Harem, a place that was \u2018hidden\u2019, a segregated place for women that existed in many cultures around the world.\u00a0 Turkish culture holds a special fascination. Explore these secret, gilded cages with presenter Lianne Harris as she draws back the veil and reveals the rules, obligations, political agendas, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,59],"class_list":["post-25522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-cfuw-orillia-lianne-harris","tag-lianne-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25539,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25522\/revisions\/25539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfuworillia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}