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Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment

Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment

Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for...

11 JULY 2025 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Repression and Resistance in the Work of Artist Ateş Alpar

Repression and Resistance in the Work of Artist Ateş Alpar

Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure...

27 JUNE 2025 • By Jennifer Hattam
Ahlat Reimagined—Birthplace of Turkish Rule in Anatolia

Ahlat Reimagined—Birthplace of Turkish Rule in Anatolia

The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.

29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By William Gourlay
Should a Climate-Destroying Dictatorship Host a Climate-Saving Conference?

Should a Climate-Destroying Dictatorship Host a Climate-Saving Conference?

A year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.

25 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lucine Kasbarian
Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction?

In Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
Beyond Rubble—Cultural Heritage and Healing After Disaster

Beyond Rubble—Cultural Heritage and Healing After Disaster

Art, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.

23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
SPECIAL KURDISH ISSUE: From Kurmanji to English, an Introduction to Selim Temo

SPECIAL KURDISH ISSUE: From Kurmanji to English, an Introduction to Selim Temo

To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...

9 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Life Along Istanbul’s Byzantine Walls, a Review

Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...

28 JUNE 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
The Myth of the West: A Discontinuous History

The Myth of the West: A Discontinuous History

Arie Amaya-Akkermans reviews "The West: a new history of an old idea" that argues how the West was...

3 MARCH 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Cyprus: Return to Petrofani with Ali Cherri & Vicky Pericleous

Cyprus: Return to Petrofani with Ali Cherri & Vicky Pericleous

Arie Amaya-Akkermans talks to Lebanese and Cypriot artists about their work on the divided island of Cyprus.

8 JANUARY 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
The Apocalypse is a Dance Party

The Apocalypse is a Dance Party

Turkish artist Sena Başöz explores the metaphor of the magnolia and the advent of the apocalypse within the...

8 JANUARY 2024 • By Sena Başöz
Two Poems by Efe Duyan

Two Poems by Efe Duyan

Turkish poet Efe Duyan presents two poems from his collection "The Behavior of Words."

22 DECEMBER 2023 • By Efe Duyan
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