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…
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“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…
Imprisoning the Artist But Not the Art: The Persecution of Zehra Doğan
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 Turkey
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,…
Turkey’s Cartoonists Under Fire, Freedom of Speech Under Threat
In the beginning of January 2015, an attack that took place in the office of satirical magazine Charlie…
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…