Are we that desperately lonely?

Below article, in Turkish, was written for a Turkish weekly news magazine back in the late 90’s. It is a Continue reading →

Book review: Standing Rock, by Bikem Ekberzade

Little bit of housekeeping 🙂 Came across this link just now, an indepth and sincere review of my book. For Continue reading →

“Imagining Justice through Oral History”

On June 12, 2019 I moderated a talk by anthropologist and oral historian Zoë West co-sponsored by Hrant Dink Foundation and Continue reading →

Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and Lakota’s Struggle for Justice

My last book, the main reason for my blog’s silence for the majority of the past two years, is finally Continue reading →

Aftermath of An Assasination

Following is the English translation of an article which I penned for the January 2017 issue of a monthly Turkish Continue reading →

Crossings – An Intervention

That is how starts the mammoth text which I wrote and then placed over a single photograph in Crossings, a cross-platform, Continue reading →

From Istanbul to Baghdad

Although an avid reader, I never before had heard of Arnon Grunberg. I like going to bookstores, and in fact Continue reading →

Splintering while spreading

Last week Elijah J. Magnier, an analyst/reporter with the Kuwait based Al Rai media, published an article on his blog, Continue reading →