Orthodoxy and Russian Foreign Policy: A Story of Rise and Fall
Once an effective ideology of geopolitical expansion, Orthodoxy today has been degraded to the level of trading in indulgences and can no longer influence Russia’s geopolitical course.
Culture
“The US Needs a Reckoning, Not a Reconciliation”: An Interview with Sundiata Cha-Jua
Today, there are conflicting societal undercurrents in the US such as the increasing activism of black movements and the growing…
Seeing Ramallah from above: In Memory of Mourid Barghouti, Legendary Palestinian Poet and Novelist
Barghouti was among the few Palestinians who understood the wrath of having a state under occupation, who was a critical…
Hatem Ali’s Contribution to a Collective Memory Spirited by Drama, History, and Politics
Since 2012, Ali lived in self-exile which seems to have been a political message of refusing to accept the Syrian…
Public Art in the Service of the State: Political Iconography in Iran
The emergence of the deep state in Iran in the 2010s led to a massive change in Iran’s political murals…
How the Politics of Antiracism Impact Art, Culture, and Literature
Policy is not always a matter of government or legislation, but anti-racist policy will come from cultural change, from protest,…
Slavery and Colonialism Go Deeper than Toppling Statues
The danger is to mistake tokenistic gestures of racial and ethnic equality by the symbolic overthrow of bronze statues of…
Coronavirus and the Shift Towards a New Cinema
Paradoxically the global lockdown could potentially create a new, more organic interest, and resurgence in the communal experience that promotional…
‘Happiness Means Fighting’: Haluk Bilginer’s Long Road to Emmy Award
Turkish Actor Haluk Bilginer won the Best Actor award at the 47th International Emmy Awards, for his performance in the…
What is behind the ticket sales debate in Turkish cinema?
During the first days of 2019, many important film producers in Turkey started a ‘dispute’ by stating clearly that they…
Decolonizing African Art: Colonial Heritage and European Museums’ Gordian Knot
The looting and subsequent disappearance of artistic treasures from the African continent had two detrimental outcomes: the loss of national…
Will Turkey’s Activism for Culture change its Negative Image in Europe?
But will all this activism and enthusiasm at different levels – a veritable craze for UNESCO – be enough to…
Contemporary Islamic Art and The Jameel Prize 2018
The Jameel Prize is ‘an award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition’ and is currently on view…
“Artists Should Firmly Stand Against Neighborhood Pressure in Turkey”: An Interview with Kutlug Ataman
During an interview with Isa Tatlican from Sabah, Kutlug Ataman emphasized that artists should not bow down to neighborhood pressure…
“Neighborhood Pressure” in Turkey
The opposition in Turkey is now trying to polarize society through statements made by artists. Does every artist have to…
Ahmet Umit: “If there is no Turkey, there’s no us!”
“We cannot get anything when we declare each other about our differences. If we accept each other with our differences,…
Art, Artists and Politics: No Limits for Transgression?
It is impossible to think of artists as beings without political thoughts but when they cross the thin line between…
The Praxis of Husamettin Arslan
Arslan had said that his youth was spent in an interfile social circle due to the fact that he was…
Turgut Cansever: In pursuit of wisdom through architecture
Turgut Cansever’s primary concern was to combine architecture with ethics that entailed a quintessential overlap of religion, tradition, architecture and…
