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
The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By William Gourlay
A year after committing ethnic cleansing, Azerbaijan prepares to host COP29 with little pushback from mainstream media.
25 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lucine Kasbarian
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
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
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
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
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
Turkish artist Sena Başöz explores the metaphor of the magnolia and the advent of the apocalypse within the...
8 JANUARY 2024 • By Sena Başöz
Turkish poet Efe Duyan presents two poems from his collection "The Behavior of Words."
22 DECEMBER 2023 • By Efe Duyan
Matt Broomfield reviews the first anthology of Kurdish science fiction, one that envisions new possibilities for Kurdish self-determination.
28 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Matt Broomfield
