Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian […]
Street Books in Tehran: Collective Mentality and Decolonizing Research Engagement
Wandering through the central streets of Tehran, you will invariably come across the ubiquitous street booksellers and their stalls. As
Narrative Abandonment: Suffering and the Hidden Costs of Solidarity in Times of War
As the all-out war in Ukraine touched the baton with the Covid pandemic in the early 2022, the plight of
The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening
Until the fairly recent turn towards therapy and mental health of educated middle classes in Turkey, talking with one’s neighbor,
Meet the smugglers. Decolonising the mind, questioning the border
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about
Walls
Áine Mangaoang The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth
The Materialities of Human Mobility as a Social Milieu
William Walter, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani’s Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion stands as a uniquely articulated
War and its absurdities
When Nadja was evacuated from the bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, she took her cheese with her. She took the