Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for...
JULY 11, 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure...
JUNE 27, 2025 • By Jennifer Hattam
The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
NOVEMBER 29, 2024 • By William Gourlay
A year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.
OCTOBER 25, 2024 • By Lucine Kasbarian
In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
AUGUST 23, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
AUGUST 9, 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...
JUNE 28, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Arie Amaya-Akkermans reviews "The West: a new history of an old idea" that argues how the West was...
MARCH 3, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Arie Amaya-Akkermans talks to Lebanese and Cypriot artists about their work on the divided island of Cyprus.
JANUARY 8, 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
