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 Zeynep Gambetti

The first installment in a new LARB series on human rights struggles and social movements in the Middle East....

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Threshold of Life: The Death of Nadira Kadirova

On global citizenship and the fate of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women....

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NONFICTION

POLITICS

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

Helen Mackreath reviews the novel "Every Fire You Tend," written by Sema Kaygusuz and translated by Nicholas Glastonbury....

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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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Swaying in the Crosswind

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UNHCR Chief: Election of a Bureaucrat

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Refugee or Migrant

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Shadow City: Migrant Workers in Beirut

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