MIR Meets EP 5: Jasmine Lee
In this episode of MIR Meets, we sit down with Jasmine Lee. Jasmine has been a writer with MIR for the past three…
Browsing Tag
Istanbul
“I miss home; who doesn’t miss home?”: Interviewing My Friend, a…
September 2017
It was a warm and sunny September day in Istanbul when I met a young Syrian man working at…
Intimate Connection with CANAN’s Exhibition “Behind Mount Qaf”
CANAN is the persona of Turkish-Kurdish artist, feminist, and activist who was born with the name Canan Şahin. Born…
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,…
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…
Protesting the Powerful: Art & Resistance in Turkey
Turkey’s history is no stranger to public clashes between the government and its people over…
Shifting Tides: Bombing in Istanbul Highlights Regional Struggle with Border…
For the second time in a matter of months a Turkish urban center has fallen prey to an attack at the hands of a…