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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Foundations of Solidarity: Zeina Maasri Answers
Zeina Maasri speaks with Helen Mackreath about visual ephemera of resistance, postcolonial sites of dissensus, and erasures within the decolonizing moment....
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....
Threshold of Life: The Death of Nadira Kadirova
On global citizenship and the fate of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women....
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....
Pay Attention: On Carolyn Forché’s “What You Have Heard Is True”
Helen Mackreath considers “What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance” by Carolyn Forché....
Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde
To listen to Ilhan Mimaroğlu’s music is to be struck by the multitude of voices, geographies, and struggles with which he was engaged....
Entrepreneur of Desire: Portrait of an Afghan Smuggler
A lonely and dangerous life of gambles and trust....
The Bottom Rung of Migrant Hierarchy: Afghans in Istanbul
The precarious life of Afghan refugees in Turkey....
From Place to Place: Syrian Christians in Istanbul
Syrian refugees live a precarious existence in Istanbul....
Swaying in the Crosswind
The women’s movement in Palestine is hard to assess, not only because of ambiguous metrics, but because many other struggles so often overshadow it...
UNHCR Chief: Election of a Bureaucrat
Walked through a wood, saw the birds in the trees; They had no politicians and sang at their ease: They weren’...
Refugee or Migrant
Should we call them refugees or migrants? It is now common practice in Europe to enforce a heavy-handed, arbitrary categorization of those fleeing war....
Shadow City: Migrant Workers in Beirut
A culture of indentured servitude is increasingly the norm in Beirut....
At Home with Syrian Refugees and Their Hosts
New from "Around the World"...
The Role of Host Communities in North Lebanon
"New from Around the World"...
