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Explainer: How Do the Kurds Relate to the Arab World,…
On September 25th, Iraqi Kurds voted overwhelmingly in an independence referendum to separate from Iraq and become…
Imprisoning the Artist But Not the Art: The Persecution…
In July 2016, Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for her problematic art and social media…
Screening of The Box Depicts Refugee Life as a Child
This Tuesday, Boğaziçi University held a screening of the short animation The Box: A Syrian Story, which…
Mustang: A Fictional Telling of Female Struggle in…
One Turkish film that has received prominent international exposure is Mustang (2015), which tells a powerful story…
Nil Yalter’s Art and the Refugee Crisis in Turkey
Nil Yalter is hardly a new name in the world of contemporary art; from issues of feminism to immigration,…
Road Toward Reconciliation? A New Start for a Divided…
After a decade-long rift, the two political parties of Palestine, Hamas and Fatah (also known as the Palestinian…
Turkey’s Cartoonists Under Fire, Freedom of Speech…
In the beginning of January 2015, an attack that took place in the office of satirical magazine Charlie…
Finding a Middle Way: Reconciling Religion with Politics…
As of September 2017, Turkish school curriculums will no longer teach Darwin’s widely accepted Theory of Evolution.…
The Biennial at Istanbul Modern: Lacking In Locality
This weekend, I had the chance to go to one of Istanbul’s most prestigious art shows, the Istanbul…
Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Bin Salman: A Man with a…
If recent news these past few months is anything to go by, Saudi Arabia, under the newly appointed Crown Prince…
Women of Saudi Arabia: On the Jagged Road to Parity
Within the span of a few months, women’s rights in the male-dominated Saudi state have finally left the dark ages,…
Conflicting Interests: A Power Vacuum Remains in Libya
After a 42-year reign of mostly iron-fisted dictatorship, many Libyans hoped that Muammar Gaddafi’s capture…