<h4>Helen Mackreath is the Middle East Correspondent for the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em> based in Istanbul, previously in Beirut and the West Bank. She is currently researching issues relating to Syrian refugee governance in Turkey.</h4>

Helen Mackreath

<strong>Fattah Lemar Rabiei has been working with Afghan and other refugees for different NGOs in Istanbul since 2009.</strong>

Fattah Lemar Rabiei

Entrepreneur of Desire: Portrait of an Afghan Smuggler

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

The Bottom Rung of Migrant Hierarchy: Afghans in Istanbul

Fattah Lemar Rabiei has been working with Afghan and other refugees for different NGOs in Istanbul since 2009.