Matt Broomfield's new book explores the history of the Rojava revolution in Syrian Kurdistan as a model for...
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27 JUNE 2025 • By Jennifer HattamThe Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By William GourlayA year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.
25 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lucine KasbarianIn Nektaria Anastasiadou's experience, agents, publishers and editors often have peculiar ideas about what constitutes Middle East fiction.
6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Nektaria AnastasiadouArt, activism, archaeology, and archiving are crucial for rebuilding and healing cities by combining the past and present.
23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansTo celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan XelefArie 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-AkkermansArie Amaya-Akkermans reviews "The West: a new history of an old idea" that argues how the West was...
3 MARCH 2024 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansArie Amaya-Akkermans talks to Lebanese and Cypriot artists about their work on the divided island of Cyprus.
8 JANUARY 2024 • By Arie Amaya-AkkermansTurkish artist Sena Başöz explores the metaphor of the magnolia and the advent of the apocalypse within the...
8 JANUARY 2024 • By Sena BaşözTurkish poet Efe Duyan presents two poems from his collection "The Behavior of Words."
22 DECEMBER 2023 • By Efe Duyan