Helen Mackreath

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

Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Anat Matar

Helen Mackreath talks with Anat Matar about her new book “The Poverty of Ethics.”...

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POLITICS

Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae

Helen Mackreath talks with Egyptian author and activist Yasmin El-Rifae about her new book, “Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution.”...

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The Language of the Misfit: On Oğuz Atay’s “The Disconnected”

A great Turkish cult novel of the early ’70s is available in English translation (sort of)....

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FICTION

Foundations of Solidarity: Zeina Maasri Answers

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HISTORY

Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Zeynep Gambetti

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POLITICS

Threshold of Life: The Death of Nadira Kadirova

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NONFICTION

POLITICS

The Intimacies of Violence: Sema Kaygusuz’s “Every Fire You Tend”

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FICTION

Pay Attention: On Carolyn Forché’s “What You Have Heard Is True”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

POETRY

Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde

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MUSIC

Entrepreneur of Desire: Portrait of an Afghan Smuggler

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POLITICS

The Bottom Rung of Migrant Hierarchy: Afghans in Istanbul

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POLITICS

From Place to Place: Syrian Christians in Istanbul

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