Fourteen million people have been displaced from Sudan due to the war, finding joy in life between the...
SEPTEMBER 5, 2025 • By Real Bakhit
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
Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...
MAY 9, 2025 • By Elena Pare
The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
NOVEMBER 29, 2024 • By William Gourlay
Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.
JULY 26, 2024 • By Amy Omar
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
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world...
JUNE 7, 2024 • By William Gourlay
Regarded internationally as one of Turkey’s greatest writers, Oğuz Atay (1934-1977) remains largely untranslated into English.
MAY 3, 2024 • By Ralph Hubbell
Amy Omar explores her own Turkish American identity while relating to Turkish American writer Inci Atrek and her...
JANUARY 29, 2024 • By Amy Omar
Turkish poet Efe Duyan presents two poems from his collection "The Behavior of Words."
DECEMBER 22, 2023 • By Efe Duyan
Sevinç Unal relives her memories as she surveys the region of her family and childhood in southeastern Anatolia...
NOVEMBER 5, 2023 • By Sevinç Ünal
Nektaria Anastasiadou writes about her decision to pen her works using the historically fractured language of the Istanbul...
OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
