Nektaria Anastasiadou: “Gold in Taksim Square”
The novelist behind "A Recipe for Daphne" returns to multicultural Istanbul to write about love and death amongst the city's minorities.
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2022 Webby Honoree Documents Queer Turkish Icon
İlker Hepkaner reviews a web documentary on the fascinating trajectory of Turkey's late icon, Zeki Müren.
Silver Stories from Artist Micaela Amateau Amato
Artist and writer Micaela Amateau Amato uses art and words to create unique ways of transmogrifying the world.
(G)Hosting the Past: On Michael Rakowitz’s “Reapparitions”
Arie Akkermans reviews an Iraqi American's exhibitions as they attempt to recreate missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq after the American invasion in 2003.
The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff
Nektaria Anastasiadou The Bosporus, normally cobalt blue, went electric turquoise that weekend. Some thought there had been a pollution spill. Others said the change had something to do with the… Continue reading The Location of the Soul According to Benyamin Alhadeff
Malak Mattar — Artist and Survivor
TMR's editor Jordan Elgrably talks to young Malak Mattar in Gaza, who has survived massive state violence and begun a promising career in art.
The Hidden World of Istanbul’s Rums
Rana Haddad interviews Istanbullu novelist Nektaria Anastasiadou about the little-known Rum community of Istanbul featured in her new novel.
An American in Istanbul Between Muslim and Christian Worlds
Anne-Marie O'Connor reviews A Recipe for Daphne, the debut novel by Nektaria Anastasiadou set in Istanbul's venerable Rum community.